by Rowan | Sep 4, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Trading places Michelle–our EIC–and I are frequently the same person. We have similar opinions on an awful lot of things from food (ugly is fine as long as it’s tasty; more cheese, please) to people (we prefer a few close friends). One of the big...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Imagine me and you, and you and me… One of the standard exercises for fiction writers is to write a story from the point of view of an inanimate object. It’s rather hard to do well, honestly, largely because so many new writers can’t resist the...
by Rowan | Aug 28, 2020 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round 1 Closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) The sky’s the limit Well, actually Sunday night’s the limit. That’s how long you’ve got to complete an essay using the prompt that you’re about to read. The good news is, you...
by Rowan | Aug 28, 2020 | Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
The dog ate my homework Well, WordPress did. I don’t know what this update is (ALSO LOOKING AT YOU, FACEBOOK) but can we not? This is my third stab at an intro and I’m just gonna save and exit as fast as I can so that you can find out who won the popular...
by Rowan | Aug 26, 2020 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Or not, if you don’t eat chicken for one reason or another. I’ve got chickens on the mind today because a friend just had to evacuate their home, which is threatened by the fires in California, and I’m hoping they were...
by Rowan | Aug 21, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
What kind of stories do you tell? Like a lot of people, I’ve been playing more Animal Crossing this year than I expected to. Not because I particularly love pulling weeds and terraforming (although I’m enjoying recreating Hyrule on my island) or because I...
