by Rowan | Jan 19, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Time keeps on ticking The Christmas kitten is more than twice as big now as she was a month ago; she’s had two rounds of kitten shots and it’s starting to be actively unpleasant when she tries to sleep draped over my throat. She’s also making a break...
by Rowan | Jan 12, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Mindful Practice A couple years ago, out of the blue, my dad sent me a practice chanter set. He’d found it at a thrift store and thought of how many times I’d said I wanted to learn to play the bagpipes when I was a kid, and, well, one thing led to...
by Rowan | Jan 5, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Weather… or not While Stacie’s trapped by winter storms and power is out for many of my Canadian friends (stay safe and warm out there, y’all, and thanks to the utility folks who are working some kinda crazy double overtime) it’s relatively...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
New Year’s Evolutions Like an inspiration-type Pokemon, YeahWrite occasionally evolves. This year, that means the Nonfiction Know-how is retiring in favor of its evolved form: the Technique Toolbox. “TnT” is a more dynamite acronym than NfKn anyway....
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Writing Help
Well, it’s 2018, and the best proof of that is how many times I’m going to scribble out “2017” as I write the date. I keep thinking I’ll get it right one of these years, but so far no luck. In the spirit of both “making old things...
by Rowan | Dec 29, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Miaou? Y’all, if this post isn’t totally coherent, forgive me. My spouse wanted a kitten for Christmas, and we’d been talking about it for a while, and well, now we’ve got a 9-week-old bundle of fluff and starlight in our house but it...
