by Rowan | Jun 16, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Hello, darlings! This morning a friend challenged us to post a single sentence or paragraph from something we were working on. Trying to do that – to pick out that one perfect sentence among many – is almost the opposite of the old advice to “kill...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jun 14, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Summer reading My summer officially starts next week, with the end of my son’s school year. I don’t know when I’ll manage to write again, but I do know I’ll read more during my less structured schedule. I love to read! Speaking of reading,...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jun 13, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
When Flash Goes Rogue I’ve made a rod for my own back. Several weeks ago, I wrote a flash speculative fiction piece that centred around the theme word revenge. In a nutshell, the main character goes all Lorena Bobbitt on her boyfriend, in revenge for a presumed...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jun 11, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Crookneck Squash When I’m pressed for time and deadlines loom, I like to procrastinate by reading random things I wrote years ago. While casually wasting time yesterday, I found a charming sentence I concocted involving crookneck squash. I haven’t thought...
by Rowan | Jun 9, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
When it rains, it pours It’s been a bad couple weeks for writing for me; I’m 3/4 of the way through a porch remodel and it’s only intermittently sunny in my city, so my days have been divided between frantically trying to work in the sunny hours,...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jun 7, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Tea for three Pour yourself a cup of tea, grab a tasty snack, and settle down to read and vote on three writing challenge grids this week. Yes three! The microprose challenge returns the first week of every month. Happy reading! Popular voting for the yeah write #321...
