by Christine Hanolsy | Oct 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Style and substance What makes a story a really good story? Anyone can write a list of events: “this happened, and then this, and I felt like that, and then this other thing happened.” That’s not a story; it’s barely a narrative. Stories...
by Rowan | Sep 24, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Stylish! This month’s “big project” is a style guide for a client I’ve been working with for a while—they’re one of my favorites, but I’m also, in the dark and secret corners of my heart, pretty excited to have an official...
by Christine Hanolsy | Sep 17, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
All this time No, not the Sting song—I’m talking about hours and minutes. The kids are off to school (in person, for better or worse; fingers crossed) and I have hours every day to… do what? I’ve gotten out of the habit of writing. But September is a...
by Nathan James | Sep 10, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Shiny objects and bullish men Continuing the trend, I am also a huge fan of retellings. One of my first stories to get in the Top Three at YeahWrite back when we had a blog share was a retelling of Ariadne, who fell in love with the hero Theseus and helped him escape...
by Natalie DeYoung | Sep 3, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Mirror, mirror No joke, but I started reading a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood last week. When I saw what this month’s prompt was, I felt delighted at this bit of serendipity. Retellings are some of my favorite types of stories because reading one is like...
by Christine Hanolsy | Sep 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Nothing new under the sun There are people who will tell you that there are no new stories. Some will go so far as to put a number on it, and swear that there are really only seven stories in the world, or nine, or twelve, or thirty-six. Whether or not you believe...
