by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 15, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
The Write Way I am glad to be in 2020, but this adjustment of writing the correct year on things is not as straightforward as my desire to be in this year. However many times I have to cross out 2019 and replace it with 2020, I hope to write more than the correct date...
by Nathan James | Jan 11, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Word Guilt Whenever my therapist asked me how my week went, I would always mumble to him about how I hadn’t written anything. He found it interesting that I measured my week by the words I DIDN’T write. He asked me how many words I thought I had generated...
by Rowan | Jan 10, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Attitude is key Kidding. I hate that crap. Attitude won’t improve your pay scale (except perhaps, assuming your workplace is committed to fairness and not at all affected by systemic misogyny or racism even unconsciously), your access to healthcare, or your odds...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 8, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Brrrrr My heater broke. For three days, no heat. It’s winter here in New England. Needless to say, this development was not much fun. But I’m happy to report that as of this morning, all is well and the house is slowly warming up, one degree at a time, so...
by Michelle Longo | Jan 4, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
What Are You Going to Do? I’m going to be blunt: What are you going to do with your 2020? When I ask you at the end of the year what you’re most proud of and what you want to brag about (assuming I remember to ask), what do you want to say? Knowing what...
by Rowan | Jan 3, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
I need a break to recover from my break This can be a rough time of year to be a writer, what with the apocalyptic fires and the assassinations. What, you thought I meant the holidays? Those are over. But the world keeps tumbling on, and one of my jobs is to stay...
