by Michelle Longo | Jan 22, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hi there! Y’all. Are you a writer? Are you still calling yourself an aspiring writer or telling people you want to be a writer? Stop it. Right now. Write stuff. BE A WRITER. Have you been lurking? Submit something this week....
by Michelle Longo | Jan 15, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] You Are What You Read What I’m about to say may sound like the opposite, so let me make this royal proclamation right upfront: I do not dislike bloggers. I started writing for public consumption as a blogger, and I get paid to...
by Michelle Longo | Jan 8, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Writing is Life I was thinking about how I have my specific writing goals for 2017 but that I also have my life goals. One of these – one I make annually – is to simplify things. All the things. I don’t know if...
by Michelle Longo | Jan 1, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Gratitude If you had told me back in 2012, back when I was thinking about submitting something to yeah write, that someday I’d be the editor in chief here, I’d have never believed you. And if you’d told me that the...
by Michelle Longo | Dec 25, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] How Not to Goal I have a stack of papers under my desk and on top is a sticky note that says, simply, “Edit.” This is quite possibly one of the least useful notes I’ve ever written myself. The stack is my...
by Michelle Longo | Dec 18, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Oh, December So the thing I love about December is it’s right before January which is a great month for resets. I have to be honest with you: November was terrible for a variety of reasons and December has been one of those...