by Natalie DeYoung | Jun 7, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sleepy The past week or so it’s been a challenge keeping my eyes open. Maybe it’s the kitty who wakes me up in the middle of the night, howling to be let in, or perhaps it’s being in the third trimester of...
by Nathan James | May 31, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
Tools As the name of my blog The Relative Cartographer suggests, one of my hobbies is researching my family tree. Before I start digging into my ancestor’s history, I spend time looking into different state and local websites and newspapers archives that might...
by Natalie DeYoung | May 24, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The spaces between For me, writing isn’t always about writing. A lot of my writing takes place in the spaces between. I am a very visually-oriented person, and as such, artwork and movies often inspire some of my most fun...
by Nathan James | May 17, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
Hotheaded I’m probably not going to tell you anything you don’t know already, but you know those author quotes, books about writing, and “helpful” motivation websites that tell writers we need to write every single day at the same time? Yeah,...
by Natalie DeYoung | May 10, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Medium As it gets toward the end of the semester, I always have my students watch some type of film, usually an adaptation of whatever book we’ve read for the semester. This semester we’ve been watching The Talented Mr....
by Nathan James | May 3, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
Off the rails My partner and I cut all ties with our regular Thursday night routine and went to the theater. (I love my city because that’s a thing we can do here. Just show up at a theater downtown and buy tickets.) We saw Bullets Over Broadway, a musical based...
