by Rowan | Jul 31, 2016 | Super Challenge, Writing Help, YeahWrite
When I ask our community what they love about yeah write, the first thing that everyone says is – can you guess? It’s not “the challenge” or “the competition” or “the bump in my blog stats.” No. It’s “the...
by Rowan | May 29, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”29470″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]The Amazigh (known historically as Berber) people have been around for a long time. Don’t believe me? Check out...
by Rowan | May 29, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I spend a whole lot of time talking about editing. Edit your work. OH MY GOD PLEASE @#$@ING EDIT YOUR WORK. But what does that even mean, once you’ve run spellcheck and decided that you don’t want to write at the broken fifth-grade grammar level that is...
by Rowan | May 1, 2016 | Nonfiction, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tennyson wrote, but really, we all know what tears mean, right? Sadness. So sad. So very very sad. The saddest. Have reached sadception. Pining for the fjords. Something. What we might not know is that “tears”...
by Rowan | May 1, 2016 | Poetry Slam, Writing Help
So who had fun with the bop last month? Didn’t quite get the poem you were hoping for? Want to try it again? Well, we’re upping the difficulty level a little this month with the rondeau. Like the bop, the rondeau is essentially a “song” form of poetry, so I hope...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2016 | Nonfiction, Writing Help
As an editor, I spend a whole lot of time talking about how to fix up writing you already have. But what do you do when the words don’t come? For this month’s nonfiction know-how (thanks, Cyn!) I want to talk about finding ideas when you don’t think...
