by Rowan | May 12, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Work with me here See that picture up there? For the last three days, that was my office. I mean, not the ocean. But I took that picture from my “desk chair” with my laptop firmly planted across my legs and the novel I’m editing onscreen. Sometimes...
by Rowan | May 5, 2017 | Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Eighteen writers enter. Ten writers leave. While my part of the world is certainly starting to feel like a blisteringly hot dystopia, I’m not quite ready to go full Mad Max yet. Instead, I’m looking for a distraction, and I’ve got eighteen great...
by Rowan | May 5, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Cinco De Mayo or Revenge of the Fifth? Whatever your reason for celebrating today – maybe just “It’s Friday” – over here at YeahWrite we’re celebrating our popular vote winners and editorial staff picks. See, while there’s a popular...
by Rowan | May 3, 2017 | Super Challenge, YeahWrite
We’ve left Round One of the Super Challenge in the dust, and I can just see Round Two over the horizon. Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team’s untiring work behind the scenes, and anything you hate is probably my fault....
by Rowan | May 1, 2017 | Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
“It’s not a journal entry, it’s a personal essay.” That’s something I say a lot when I’m making edits. Also this: “Your essay needs to be more than a list of events interspersed with your feels.” What’s the...
by Rowan | May 1, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
All right, poets, it’s your turn. April was National Poetry Month, so this month instead of a slam we’re going to talk about how to read and critique all that work you generated for your #poemaday before you unleash it on an unsuspecting Internet. Or, if...
