by Rowan | Jun 16, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Hello, darlings! This morning a friend challenged us to post a single sentence or paragraph from something we were working on. Trying to do that – to pick out that one perfect sentence among many – is almost the opposite of the old advice to “kill...
by Rowan | Jun 9, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
When it rains, it pours It’s been a bad couple weeks for writing for me; I’m 3/4 of the way through a porch remodel and it’s only intermittently sunny in my city, so my days have been divided between frantically trying to work in the sunny hours,...
by Rowan | Jun 2, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
This is the end, my friend The judges’ results are in and tallied and we’re ready to announce the winners of our fourth Super Challenge! Winners, you’ll also get an email confirming your details so that we can send your prizes to you. We hope...
by Rowan | Jun 2, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
OK, but was it made of cheese or not? 51 years ago today, the first US spacecraft soft-landed on another world. Well, ok, on the Moon. It’s a whole nother round thing out there in space, though, you know? Moments like these spark our imagination in so many ways....
by Rowan | Jun 1, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Let’s take a mid-season break! Where I’m sitting, it’s almost midsummer. Editor Asha, in Australia, is watching midwinter approach. But no matter where in the world you are, it’s a season of song. Some of us are singing around beach bonfires,...
by Rowan | Jun 1, 2017 | Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
A Glancing Blow Do you ever notice, when you’re editing, that you have a “favorite word?” Mine, apparently, is “glance.” In the rough draft of the novel I’m editing, “glance” occurs on average once every 1.98 pages. In...
