by Rowan | Feb 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Cliche One of the most frequent pieces of advice given to new writers is to avoid cliche. Of course, we also tell them to learn the rules of grammar and syntax, structure their persuasive essays “Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion,” and avoid long...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Stay awhile, and listen. That’s a line from a character in one of my most-played (I have no idea if it’s my favorite but WOW did I play it a lot) (that’s a pun, shoutout to the five people who got it) video games. Besides being a scratchy little...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welcome to 2020 We’ve been running the poetry slam for, oh my gosh, five years now? That’s five times twelve, minus the critique post, carry the haiku… um… at least fifty different types of poetry. And it occurred to us that we’d spent so...
by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 1, 2019 | Writing Help, YeahWrite, Year of Fearless Writing
Welcome to the Year of Fearless Writing! You write. I mean, that's why you're here. But how often do you say "I'm a writer?" And what's the difference between "I write" and "I'm a writer" anyway? Over the last five years, YeahWrite--besides being a great place to...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Well, it’s December again. Like every year, I had the best intentions. I was going to write more. Specifically, I was going to write more poetry. I like what the process of writing poetry does for my brain. It makes me more concise, more richly metaphorical, and...
by Rowan | Nov 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
That doesn’t count How many times have you said that? But counting is one of a poet’s best tools. Even in poetic forms without rhyme or meter, we’re often counting words in a line, lines in a stanza, stanzas in a … you get the picture. The...
