Writing Help
Looking for a few extra tips and tricks or craft hints? You’ve found YeahWrite’s Writing Help archive. Below, you’ll see a collection of the posts we think you’ll find helpful. Besides our monthly Nonfiction Know-How and Poetry Slams, we’ve included posts from past workshops, guest authors, classes, and the times one or another of our editors added some in-depth knowledge during a routine weekly post. Be sure to check out our favorite post: the one that defines the “so what.” Whether you write fiction, nonfiction, or correspondence, your reader should never be left asking… so what? We’ve also collected our best of the best posts about constructive criticism in one place, because writing help is also about helping each other write. Good luck, and happy writing!
2012 yeah write summer writer’s series final tutorial: write from the end
have a clear destination
yeah write #69 summer writer’s series continues: are you a drifter, a literalist or a repeater?
writing in small spaces
yeah write #69 summer challenge grid is open: discipline and writing in small spaces
You have to know the rules before you can break the rules
yeah write #69 summer writer’s series: organizing a compelling post structure
Where to start a piece of writing is a tough question, and the only question harder is where to end a piece of writing.
yeah write #68 summer writer’s series continues: “sorry, kid, your grandmother had a C- death”
Finding the “so what” can be a brutal process because it involves carving away the excess baggage; it means cutting away the pretty image, the graceful sentence, the interesting side-note.
yeah write #68 summer challenge grid continues: critiquing and being critiqued
Criticism ought to be constructive, instructive, pointed: the catalyst that helps create true art
yeah write #68 summer challenge grid is open: writing for your target audience
Can we all agree that writing a post for the yeah write grid is a little different than writing a post for your general audience unless, of course, your general audience is made up of all kinds of awesome?
yeah write #68 summer series intro: I spy with my critical eye…
This week, we’ll discuss the three main types of readers.
yeah write #67 summer writer’s series continues: use your verbs
When beginning or amateur writers try to get specific, they tend to muffle their sentences in adjectives, adverbs, or flowery imagery, and sorely neglect the engine of the sentence: the verb.
yeah write #67 summer writer’s grid is open: the person in the room with a problem
Even in a small amount of words, your blog story needs a central conflict.
yeah write #67 summer series: badges are ready, voting on the grid is back!
the badges are ready and voting on the grid returns this week!
yeah write #66 summer writers’ series continues: the creative and necessary use of photos on your blog
Like a book’s cover, we can’t judge your content by a picture.
yeah write #66 summer writer’s series continues: meeting your blog’s theme files before they meet you
SCENE: INT. DAY A GENERIC OFFICE SETTING
yeah write #66 summer writer’s series continues: hosted by Flood G.
Today, we’ll discuss briefly how to get the shots. Later in the week, we’ll look at how to use them.
yeah write #66 summer series grid is open: hosted by Michael Gray
Look for themes that are clean and uncluttered. Clutter equals chaos.