by Rowan | Apr 2, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I remembered! Y’all, I have forgotten National Poetry month for like… mumble of the mumblemumble years I’ve worked with YeahWrite. You have no idea how excited I am that I remembered this year. I thought about making this month a poetry free-for-all...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Talk to me Did you make it through March? April’s requirements are more relaxed. Well, sort of. We’re taking away all your expositional dialogue and you’re going to show, not tell, us your story. Ready? April’s assignment is: rewrite your story...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
April Fools! No, kidding. April slam. April poetry slam. It’s purely a coincidence that this slam went live on the last day you have to get something on the fiction|poetry grid for the first day of April. ANYWAY. For 2020 our poetry slams are exploring...
by Rowan | Feb 29, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s rhyme time! Yes, you heard me right. After all those months bagging on sonnets, I’m giving in. Let’s talk about rhyme. Rhyme is probably the first thing you learned about poetry: it’s just words that end in the same sound. Usually that...
by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 29, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
What have I done? Look, February’s 20/20 was heckin’ hard. We almost died trying to get our story down to wordcount. The good news is, that’s the tightest wordcount you’re going to have all year. The bad news is… we’re still taking...
by Rowan | Feb 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Tough love February is the month of love. Or lurrrrrrve, as we like to say it. So what better way to celebrate than to make you hate us just a little? Don’t say you’re not going to hate us. We hate us already. This is a hard one The good news is that this...