by Natalie DeYoung | Feb 13, 2015 | moonshine, YeahWrite
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open I don’t know what I’m more excited about: Valentine’s Day, or Friday the 13th. See, I enjoy romance, flowers, candles and delicious dinners out where I don’t have to cook/clean up,...
by Natalie DeYoung | Feb 6, 2015 | moonshine, YeahWrite
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open You may have noticed, but we’ve gotten pretty romantic around yeah write as of late. I’ve always wanted to be on the cover of a romance novel, so I can deal with a romantic hero sweeping me off my...
by Natalie DeYoung | Feb 3, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to the fiction and poetry challenge at yeah write My high school English teacher junior year was a character. Always coated in chalk dust, he would talk to the pigeons outside and sometimes frighten us with a decades-old,...
by Natalie DeYoung | Jan 30, 2015 | moonshine, YeahWrite
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open I guess there’s something big on TV this week. Something about a football, men in lycra with lots of pads? Referees making hand signs I don’t understand, people in the audience with their faces painted?...
by Natalie DeYoung | Jan 23, 2015 | moonshine, YeahWrite
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open I’m a writing teacher, and one of the first lessons I give my students is the first step of the writing process: prewriting. Whether you free write, brainstorm, cluster, outline, or compose haikus in your...
by Natalie DeYoung | Jan 20, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to the fiction and poetry challenge at yeah write Right now, I am reading The Magician’s Land, the final book in a series that has not disappointed in its ability to keep me obsessively turning pages. After plowing...