by Michelle Longo | Oct 8, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Look out below! Last week we launched a new format for the Weekly Writing Challenges. Instead of hunting all over for your grid to submit your work or having to remember what day it is to know if your challenge is open, we’ve put everything into one streamlined...
by Michelle Longo | Sep 24, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Seasonal Thoughts It’s officially autumn here in the US, which means I’m officially depressed that in three months it will officially be winter. In the meantime, we have a few months of people either talking about or making fun of pumpkin spice. On the...
by Michelle Longo | Sep 17, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Going for the Gut We are about to start renovating our kitchen. We’ve lived here a little over seven years, and the kitchen has needed to be renovated for at least the last 20. At first, we thought we might be able to do it piecemeal. Update one thing here,...
by Michelle Longo | Sep 10, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Good Grief, Y’all As I write this, more hurricanes are swirling and things are still burning. It’s kind of hard to do anything right now without acknowledging all that’s happening. It’s hard to do anything because of all that’s happening....
by Michelle Longo | Sep 3, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
It’s Way Too Early for This As I write this, it’s Wednesday. It’s only 2-cups-of-coffee-so-far o’clock, which means barely 7am. This post won’t go live for about 89 hours and, if the way things have been going is any indication, literally...
by Michelle Longo | Aug 27, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Are You Just Dreaming? Now, I’m not one to go posting inspirational messages and whatnot, but I guess I was having a sappy moment when I first read about Norma Heath so I made a note to write about her in an upcoming kickoff. Norma was, at one time, homeless, a...