by Rowan | Jul 5, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
It’s complicated Some of my complicated relationship with fireworks comes from growing up in the desert, where we routinely had wildfires that would result in friends staying with you for a week or two while they waited to see if their house would burn down....
by Rowan | Jul 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite, Year of Fearless Writing
Welcome to the Year of Fearless Writing! You write. I mean, that's why you're here. But how often do you say "I'm a writer?" And what's the difference between "I write" and "I'm a writer" anyway? Over the last five years, YeahWrite--besides being a great place to...
by Rowan | Jul 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
The 23rd poet laureate consultant in poetry (that’s the actual title) of the United States is as American as they come: Tulsa, Oklahoma, resident Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. She’s the first Native American to hold the title, and...
by Rowan | Jun 28, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Challenges Ever since Christine took over the voting post she’s been messing with me. She knows I like to follow up the voting post featured pic with a related picture for the winners’ post. So this week she snuck in and put this weird, vaguely obscene,...
by Rowan | Jun 21, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Breathing room My writing partner is thousands of miles away. My editor is in a hot spring. The authors I’m editing are talking amongst themselves. For the first time in weeks I have the breathing room to work on my own projects and I have no idea what I want to...
by Rowan | Jun 14, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Quack. Whine. Quack. Anyone who knows me, knows I hate summer. Today I remembered what I hate more than summer: being sick in the summer. I had this whole “ducks” metaphor thing laid out in my head to share with you, and now my head’s so stuffy I...
