by Rowan | Nov 24, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Goooooooal! I have friends doing NaNoWriMo. I love my friends. I do not love NaNo. And not just because, as an editor, I end up seeing tooo many sloppy projects (honestly, save your editor time and you money and check out last year’s Scarlet Quill series on...
by Christine Hanolsy | Nov 17, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Short fiction is in trouble If you’ve been running around in the short fiction writing community for any length of time, you know that there has been a lot of upheaval and uncertainty. The onslaught of AI-generated story submissions, an increase in scams and...
by Asha Rajan | Nov 10, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
One is the loneliest number Do you collaborate with other writers or other artists? I’m in several writers’ groups (both online an in person), and I’ve contributed to anthologies, beta read for others, and edited fairly extensively, but I’d...
by Arden Ruth | Nov 3, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Goodbye Spooky, Hello Cozy Living in Seattle, I shouldn’t complain, but it took longer than usual for the inevitable gray to settle down over our city. But this morning, I woke up to dreariness, fog, and a light drizzle. Unlike many who may groan at this change,...
by Rowan | Nov 3, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Scarlet Quill Society, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite’s free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for...
by Rowan | Oct 27, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
There goes the sun And I don’t miss it one bit. As a person with the spring SADs, this is my joyful season. Everywhere around me is greening up for Second Spring because I live in a flippin desert now I guess, I’m bringing in the last of the harvest from...
