by Arden Ruth | Dec 16, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Healthy Habits I’m sure we’ve all heard the ol’ saying that “Real writers write every day.” I used to ascribe to this, dragging myself to the keyboard each and every day, forcing terrible words out of me even though it was the last thing...
by Rowan | Dec 9, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Let it snow It snowed at my house this week. Before anyone jumps up to say that that’s nothing special and I’m only excited because I live in the Pacific Northwest where it’s more likely to rain than either snow or be sunny, I need you to know that I...
by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 2, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
A light in the dark My neighbors have all already hung their holiday lights [ed’s note: if you’ve been watching the Scarlet Quill Society meetings, you know I never took mine down. /rbg] . Me, I’m behind the ball on this one. It was raining on the...
by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 1, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Scarlet Quill Society, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that’ll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we’re also including...
by Nathan James | Nov 25, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Accountability I joined a writing accountability group made up of some IRL friends. They’ve cancelled both meetings that I said I could make. I offered to host a makeup session later in the week. Crickets. This isn’t the first group that started with good intentions...
by Asha Rajan | Nov 18, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Rejection collection Every writer has heard the advice of collecting a hundred rejections, right? I don’t know what your Rejection Collection [trademark pending] is looking like, but mine’s… burgeoning. The rejections pile up and I feel increasingly...
