by Rowan | Aug 16, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
If money grew on trees, would it fall into my hands in the autumn? Money doesn’t, tragically (or actually when you consider how inflation works, that’s probably a good idea), grow on trees. But it does grow with each additional registration in the...
by Rowan | Aug 11, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Congratulations on making it to the final round of the YeahWrite Super Challenge! This round you’ll have a new kind of prompt: a sentence. Each writer will incorporate that sentence into an essay about… well, about wherever that sentence takes them for...
by Rowan | Aug 9, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Whew. That’s over. If personal essays are a creative nonfictioneer’s meat and milk, it’s still important to know how to persuade your audience. That’s what Round Two tested. If you, like many of our writers, felt a little out of your depth,...
by Rowan | Aug 4, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners
It was the best of weeks, it was the worst of weeks Phew. Microprose, amirite? I’m not kidding when I say it’s our hardest challenge, both from the writer’s end and ours. Like every week, we keep an eye on the grid. We read (yes, even when we...
by Rowan | Aug 2, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
It’s the most wonderful time of the year About once a year, I get to steal my favorite writing partner (and second-favorite editor) and go out for happy hour. Of course, all we end up doing is talking about work; I’d say that’s how much we love this...
by Rowan | Aug 1, 2017 | Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Nothing strikes fear into the creative soul of a writer like being asked to write a persuasive essay. At least, that’s what it looks like every time we check our Super Challenge inbox. We get more questions, comments and concerns about the persuasive essay round...
