by Arden Ruth | Mar 5, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
WFHiversary Next week will mark one full year that I have been working from home and self-quarantining. And while mentally, I’m holding up, it’s hard not to look back on the past year and wonder what came of it. Or rather, what didn’t. It would be so...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
A picture is worth a thousand words It’s a nice aphorism, isn’t it? But in the case of a photo prompt, this could be a completely literal statement. A single photo—with or without people—can contain a multitude of stories both inside and outside the frame....
by Rowan | Feb 26, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Putting it off I’ve had this intro open for five hours now and these are the first words I’ve put in it. A lot of us have felt lately (well, in the past literally a year) that our writing practice has suffered. Like it’s the thing we can put off. And...
by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 19, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Refresh yourself I was reminded, this week, that sometimes it’s worth taking a break. Not necessarily from writing altogether (although I did spend an entire day or two playing Animal Crossing this weekend, don’t judge), but from what you’re writing....
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 12, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Click click click click I am not really a New Year’s resolution kind of person. In fact, I try not to be too strict with myself in general, given I am in the weeds of early-years parenting, with a two- and four- year old. But this year, I made a promise to...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 5, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Lockdown, fires, and editing, oh my! It’s Day Two of a (currently) five-day lockdown where I live. It’s the middle of Summer, there’s a familiar but disconcerting smell of burning eucalyptus in the air, the sky’s a deeply worrying shade of...
