by Rowan | Nov 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s my birthday and I’ll poem if I want to. Um, and you can join me if you want to. November is one of my favorite months, for obvious and not-so-obvious reasons. But this year it’s even more favoriter (I can make up words if I want, too) because...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I don’t know about you, but I get bored no matter what I’m doing, if I do it long enough. Even if it’s writing. My favorite characters start staggering drunkly across the page, my intricate plots begin to dissolve, and my settings go cardboard-flat....
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Raise your hand if you had fun with last month’s poetry slam, the Golden Shovel. For me, part of the fun was going through other people’s poetry, looking for those perfect lines that spoke to me, and then figuring out how I could speak through them. When...
by Rowan | Sep 21, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, Writing Help, YeahWrite
The last refuge of pedantry Tired of people lording it over you because you used “less” where you should have used “fewer?” Fear no more, reader! I’ve got your back. It’s confusing, because the opposites of both words, are the same:...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
This month’s writing prompts are all about opening lines, but I’m still on my terminal words kick. Tritinas, diminishing poems, what’s an editor in need of a poetry slam to do? Our September poetry slam takes a page out of Terrance Hayes’ book...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I’m sorry in advance for all the earworms this post is about to contain. We’re going to be talking through some potentially scary and also potentially boring material and this is going to help us get through. OK? Fine. Well, as the song says, Come on and...
