by Asha Rajan | Aug 18, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
August is the yellowest month It’s the Noongar season of Djilba where I live and all the yellow flowers are in bloom. Little golden orbs nod their heads happily, bobbing and swaying with the wind. You’d think that would bring me untold joy. I mean, what...
by Arden Ruth | Aug 11, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Back in the Saddle I’m still not quite sure what happened, but a few years ago, I finished the draft of my novel — a novel I’d worked on for 6+ years — and I just… quit. Perhaps I was simply tired, perhaps it was imposter syndrome, but no...
by Rowan | Aug 4, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
But why is it there in the first place? One of this month’s panelists for the Scarlet Quill Society talk (on SUNDAY, that’s coming RIGHT UP!) was hosting a discussion on social media this week about, well, unexamined tropes. Specifically, the talk turned...
by Rowan | Aug 1, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Scarlet Quill Society, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite’s free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jul 28, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Looking for love – or inspiration – in all the right places It’s a common problem we all have as writers: you’re itching to write something, but you’re having trouble getting started. Maybe you have an idea, or maybe you just have this...
by Asha Rajan | Jul 21, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Rain, hail or industrial action It’s wild wet weather outdoors around here, and equally tempestuous in my internal world. Winter is the time of year when my thoughts gallop wildly and untamed and I struggle to marshal them into anything coherent. The...
