by Asha Rajan | Feb 23, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Repairing my pants Those of you who have encountered NaNoWriMo will be familiar with the terms planner and pantser in reference to writing style. Planners, as the name implies, tend to map out the parameters of their story and have a clear idea of who their characters...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Feb 16, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Sad Memoir I recently had a self-published memoir foisted on me by someone close to the author. After reading the first page, I couldn’t help but groan, which is a shame because I love well-written memoirs. I find it fascinating to read about the lives of...
by Nathan James | Feb 9, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Mold I am a practical person. I am often teased in my family for including things like new sheets, a humidifier, a new pair of rubber boots on my Christmas wish list, and never anything fun. I also adhere pretty strictly to a routine. So much so that my cat Link...
by Michelle Longo | Feb 2, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
The Timing Is Never Right I don’t have time to write. I don’t have a good place to write. If I’m going to write, I need a dedicated day to do it. I need to have a perfect setup with nice pens and a cup of tea and, I don’t know, a cookie or...
by Asha Rajan | Jan 26, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Story Time It’s almost February (where did January go?) and time to refocus on writing and telling stories. The end of January brings with it the Society for Storytelling’s National Storytelling Week in the UK. Officially starting on January 26 and ending...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 19, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
My Brain on Brevity Last year, I hardly wrote at all. I read a lot–more than sixty books–but I can count the number of stories I wrote on one hand (okay, it was six, but you get what I mean). Since I’ve already written three stories in 2019,...
