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 Rowan | Jan 4, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
In-Jokes In-jokes are one of my favorite things about following a writer. For example, I love it when Stephen King’s characters make cameos in other books. For example, near the end of Tommyknockers, a not-particularly-famous book about finding a spaceship, one...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 2, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Easing into 2019 I hope everyone had a great New Year’s Eve doing whatever made you happy. I had to go to a party at the last minute (I’m an extrovert but not a late-night person so parties are never my choice for NYE) but luckily it was not a crowd we are...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jan 2, 2019 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Looking back Hey, you. Yeah, you. Look how much you accomplished last year. Chances are, you’ve written a few words. Maybe you’ve even written a lot of words. Celebrate that! Even if you didn’t hit your goals (I know I didn’t), remember that...
by Asha Rajan | Dec 29, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Squad Goals Remember what babes in the woods we all were at the beginning of 2018? I think I may actually have dared 2018 to “COME AT ME.” It did. Now that we’re at the nub end of the year, I’m bowing in supplication to 2019, that it might be...
by Rowan | Dec 7, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Windy City I know Chicago got its nickname from its politics, but I’d like to vouch for the power of the wind coming off Lake Michigan. Not that I’d know: I’ve been holed up in a room writing the whole time, with occasional trips out to get a food or...
