by Rowan | Feb 18, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Promptly One of the reasons I know I would make a terrible parent is that I cannot stop myself from annoying kids. They’re like little straight line factories. For example, one of the kids in my life is playing some Facebook game where they draw a thing and...
by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 11, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Celebrations My eldest turns 13 this week, and the family has been trying to figure out how to mark the occasion. Sleepovers are out, indoor birthday parties are out, and outdoor parties are tricky in the Pacific Northwest in February. (Who really wants to eat ice...
by Nathan James | Feb 4, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Everything Old Is New Again For me, there was nothing like the YeahWrite grids* to motivate me to write every week. The grids provided everything I needed: a hard deadline, a built-in audience, and friendly competition to challenge me to submit my very best work. Not...
by Asha Rajan | Jan 28, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Eating an elephant The old adage goes; how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. When the task of writing and submitting work for publication feels too daunting, breaking that down into more manageable chunks helps me immensely. I can tackle each smaller task...
by Arden Ruth | Jan 21, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
We Are The Champions I am a huge fan of American football, and last week, my University of Georgia Bulldogs won the national championship against one of our biggest rivals. It was 1980, before I was even born, the last time this happened, so you can imagine the high...
by Rowan | Jan 14, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Sore Muscles For our winter gifts, my partner and I gave each other (yeah I know, it doesn’t make fiscal sense, but it’s about emotional things ok?) a month with a powerlifting coach. With the Omicron variant spreading like summer wildfires and Delta...