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YeahWrite #352 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Mindful Practice A couple years ago, out of the blue, my dad sent me a practice chanter set. He'd found it at a thrift store and thought of how many times I'd said I wanted to learn to play the bagpipes when I was a kid, and, well, one thing led to another. It turns...
YeahWrite #352 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Do Not Say Cheese My passport expires later this year so today I spontaneously went to get my photos since I was having a good hair day and obviously it's very important to have excellent hair on a photo that only a few strangers per year will even see. The rules have...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #352
A Header Goes Here Y'all. After 10 days away from my day job office and a subsequently painful reentry to my corporate life, Christmas, New Year, my kid's 11th birthday, a bomb cyclone, a polar vortex, and a birthday celebration for the aforementioned 11...
YeahWrite #351 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Weather... or not While Stacie's trapped by winter storms and power is out for many of my Canadian friends (stay safe and warm out there, y'all, and thanks to the utility folks who are working some kinda crazy double overtime) it's relatively mild - if chilly and...
YeahWrite #351 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! The headline in the Washington Post today that accompanied the above photo was as follows: 'Bomb cyclone' to blast East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week. I naively thought that I'd experienced all of the...
Shoutouts Without Fallout
New Year's Evolutions Like an inspiration-type Pokemon, YeahWrite occasionally evolves. This year, that means the Nonfiction Know-how is retiring in favor of its evolved form: the Technique Toolbox. "TnT" is a more dynamite acronym than NfKn anyway. That's...
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Well, it's 2018, and the best proof of that is how many times I'm going to scribble out "2017" as I write the date. I keep thinking I'll get it right one of these years, but so far no luck. In the spirit of both "making old things new" and "scribbling out"...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #351
Happy New Year! Well, here we are - the last day of 2017. I love the new year because it gives me a chance for a fresh start. I have big plans and high hopes for 2018. How about you? Do you love to make resolutions and goals or does December flow into...
YeahWrite #350 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Miaou? Y'all, if this post isn't totally coherent, forgive me. My spouse wanted a kitten for Christmas, and we'd been talking about it for a while, and well, now we've got a 9-week-old bundle of fluff and starlight in our house but it doesn't sleep oh my gosh when...
YeahWrite #350 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Busy Break With no school this week and a husband at home too, I thought I'd be on staycation reading a ton of books. In reality, I haven't picked up any book since a few days before Christmas. I've been so so busy. Grrr. I AM excited to see so many people on the...
