by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 2, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Permission Lately I’ve found myself in the position of having to say “no” a lot—no, you can’t have more screen time; no, we can’t go out for burgers; no, you can’t go play until you’re done with your homework. And then, last...
by Natalie DeYoung | Mar 26, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Too much My job is precarious, like much of the world today. I get assignments to teach classes based on student enrollment numbers. This semester, the numbers were just not on my side, and I joined many others in the unemployment lines. Without classes to teach, I...
by Asha Rajan | Mar 19, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
One is the loneliest number This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about community and how to get more involved with local (to me) writing groups. Writing can be a woefully lonely business, or at least a woefully alone business. It can feel like you’re...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Mar 12, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Are you ready? I sure am. Ready for it to be anything but winter, that is. If you’ve been reading YeahWrite’s weekly posts for long, you may know that I walk my dogs in the woods near my house every morning. I’m so tired of the scarf-coat-hat-gloves...
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 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...
