by Rowan | Jan 15, 2016 | YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s still earlydark here where I’m writing this, and I feel as slow as, well, as slow as molasses in January. Except sometimes molasses in January isn’t slow at all, and does in fact carve a murderous swath of...
by Rowan | Jan 13, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here So, what’s your punctuation pox? I never met a pair of sentences I couldn’t cram together with a semicolon. Christine’s commas breed like tribbles....
by Rowan | Jan 8, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sometimes it’s hard to turn off the editorial bit of my brain.Not that it’s the worst thing ever, critical reading and listening. Heaven knows I advocate for it here often enough. But it can also make you do things like...
by Rowan | Jan 6, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Whoa. It looks like the first moderated week of 2016 took a few of you by surprise. Don’t worry if you didn’t make it onto the grid this week, though- we...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My very large dog had surgery two days ago. She’ll be taking a variety of medications for the next fourteen days, some of which make her both needy and incontinent. What I’m saying is 2016 is off to a squishy, warm start...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2016 | Writing Help
“What’s a so what?” Of all the requirements for a good nonfiction essay, the so what can be the most elusive, and not just because it’s not a term that most people have heard before. In fact, one way of describing the “so what” in a...
