by Christine Hanolsy | May 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Big ideas in tiny packages If you’re a fan of our microprose challenge, you know the joy—and the pain—of squeezing an entire narrative into a very limited number of words. It’s a matter of distilling your stories, reducing them down to their basic...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
April is National Poetry Month, and you know what that means! Actually, no, you don’t, because honestly we are not well-organized adults all the time and for at least the past few years we’ve dropped the ball on doing something cool for National Poetry...
by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, 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 | Mar 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 | Mar 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Writing Help
I see. It’s a phrase most of us use frequently, and it has nothing to do with eyesight. What other common ways do we explore and play with sense in our writing? This month, instead of delving into a new poetry form, we’re going to dial it back a notch...
by Rowan | Feb 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welp, it’s February again, which means I’m locked into my annual quest to find something that’s not a frickin sonnet for our poetry slam. Not that there’s anything wrong with sonnets (and in fact, I’m going to let you write a sonnet this...
