by Nathan James | Jan 11, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Word Guilt Whenever my therapist asked me how my week went, I would always mumble to him about how I hadn’t written anything. He found it interesting that I measured my week by the words I DIDN’T write. He asked me how many words I thought I had generated...
by Michelle Longo | Jan 4, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
What Are You Going to Do? I’m going to be blunt: What are you going to do with your 2020? When I ask you at the end of the year what you’re most proud of and what you want to brag about (assuming I remember to ask), what do you want to say? Knowing what...
by Asha Rajan | Dec 28, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
The last person on Earth This is my favourite time of year to walk the dogs. Not because of the absurd 27ºC/81ºF temperatures by 7 am, not because the sun is up at 4 am and so am I. No, it’s my favourite time because when I take the dogs out in the morning, the...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Dec 21, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
A Little Peace and Quiet I just got back from a silent meditation retreat and boy are my words tired. We’re accustomed to a constant flow of information – both in and out – but it turns out that sometimes we can use all that information to hide from...
by Nathan James | Dec 14, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Wandering Into the Cornfields Yeah, I wasn’t even close to making my 2019 writing goals, but that’s okay. I made them before I knew what the year had in store for me and sometimes health, career, and relationships need to take precedence. I’m...
by Michelle Longo | Dec 7, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Just Write Sometimes you want to write something and it’s based on real events and to use what actually happened in your writing will have an adverse effect. Maybe it’s a nonfiction essay where you can’t directly call someone out because of...
