by Rowan | Oct 5, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Spin spin, sugar I rearranged my office this week. Got the club chair that turned into an oubliette for projects out and moved the spinning wheel in. I used to think I hated spinning, but that was when I only had a drop spindle. If you love a drop spindle, more power...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 3, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Read and Be Read This is Michelle, filling in for Stacie who is off this week and most likely drinking wine right now. One of the earliest slogans at YeahWrite was “Read and Be Read.” It sounds perfect, right? We love to read great work, but we also want...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I don’t know about you, but I get bored no matter what I’m doing, if I do it long enough. Even if it’s writing. My favorite characters start staggering drunkly across the page, my intricate plots begin to dissolve, and my settings go cardboard-flat....
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Raise your hand if you had fun with last month’s poetry slam, the Golden Shovel. For me, part of the fun was going through other people’s poetry, looking for those perfect lines that spoke to me, and then figuring out how I could speak through them. When...
by YeahWrite Editor | Sep 30, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Writing as Respite When things are difficult, write. For many, it’s a rough time right now. Write, my friends, and let it heal you. Whether it be something extremely personal that you never show a soul, a response to what you see around you, a scathing op-ed or...
by Rowan | Sep 28, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round One Closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) Welcome to the Super Challenge! If it’s your first time here at this competition designed by writers and for writers (seriously we’d like to quit our jobs and enter, do you want to run this...
