by Rowan | Jul 7, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Comfort food, anyone? I have a friend who got married at the end of May. I’d promised to make her chuppah, out of cloth that her other friends had sent. Cue me cutting out 128 hexagons (and then there’s the partial hexes) and sewing for… well. A...
by Rowan | Jul 1, 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 Christine Hanolsy | Jun 30, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Right Here, Right Now So I recently went to an amusement park with my kids. Now, I’m not a roller coaster person, but I love my kids and they have remarkable puppy dog eyes when they want me to do something, so roller coasters it was. As I sat there waiting for...
by Rowan | Jun 23, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Unraveling As we mentioned in our guide to genre prompts a while back (cue the “it’s been 84 years” meme) there are some genres that are checklists of things to be included, and some that ask you to change your style or narrative voice. Both kinds,...
by Asha Rajan | Jun 23, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Now is the Winter of my discontent Anyone who knows me even passingly knows how much I dislike the cold, grey days of Winter. In this hemisphere of the world, Winter is just setting in, and while the days are (mercifully) getting longer, the weather is still...
by Arden Ruth | Jun 16, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Summer Time (and the living is decidedly not easy) As summer creeps ever closer, I can’t help but be jealous of kids being released out of school for a few months of freedom from responsibility and homework. As a kid, I couldn’t wait to grow up, and now I...
