by Rowan | Feb 1, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Now that everyone’s familiar with the couplet, let’s take February’s post to the next level. For this month’s poetry slam we’ll be taking everything we learned about writing in tight spaces and applying it to the four-line memoriam...
by Rowan | Feb 1, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
This month’s nonfiction knowhow is a little bit of a throwback. We’ve spent a lot of time lately talking about how to get writing that appeals to your audience onto the page; for Valentine’s Day we’re gonna remind you how to show your writing a...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s not the size that matters… It’s whether you start your post with a semi-appropriate joke. Actually, what I did just there is what you’ll be doing this month: wrote a couplet. Although we usually think of couplets as building blocks for...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2017 | Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
There’s nothing like reading through the grid (or your articles feed, or…) and coming across an essay that makes you say “Ugh, another navelgazing pile of word vomit.”And yet, there are also personal essays you’ll read that change the way...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2016 | Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What do you remember from learning to write in school? Did you have a particular teacher who made writing interesting? Did you read a story or article and think “oh, I wish I could write like that?” We get so used to the...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s the little things that matter, as we wind down to the end of the year. Tiny lights on evergreen trees. Tiny candles in their rows. The tiny terminal ‘e’ that differentiates between a ballad and a ballade. That’s right, we’re more or...
