by Rowan | Dec 11, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Your word for today is “bokeh.” Bokeh (or boke, but when writing for native English speakers I find bokeh gives a more intuitive grasp of the correct pronunciation) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the...
by Rowan | Dec 9, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here A friend of mine who teaches asked for feedback this week from my writing group on our most pivotal moments in learning to read and write critically. Obviously she got...
by Rowan | Dec 4, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Phew! NoMo’ers, your work is done. It is, like, totally December, y’all. How magic is that? Not gonna lie, I can tell by how empty the grids were this week that you’re all exhausted. I would be too. So now...
by Rowan | Dec 2, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Well, I put my tree up last night. As I get older, my preference for trees changes. I used to love bringing in our big live tree that got progressively bigger and...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2015 | Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
If you’ve been around yeah write for a while, you’ve probably seen this month’s poetry slam form, the tritina, or its big sister the sestina, popping up on the fiction|poetry grid here and there. It’s not entirely my fault, but I do love a good...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2015 | Writing Help, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In my part of the world, as I write this, we are slowly lurching on toward Winter Solstice. Midwinter, traditionally, not the “start” of winter that modern calendars like. Yule. The shortest day of the year. Like most...
