by Rowan | Apr 1, 2016 | Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Poetry is basically history, amirite? It’s not, though. As tempting as it is to think that all the poetic forms were invented ages ago by dead people, poetry is very much alive and changing. Last month’s poetry slam here...
by Rowan | Feb 28, 2016 | Writing Help, YeahWrite
When I was sitting down to write this post, I thought of some ideas I could use to introduce the subject. When I think of phrasing, I tend to think in terms of music. Because I wasn’t sure of a nonmusical way to describe phrasing, I asked a friend. She thought...
by Rowan | Feb 28, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
If you grew up in the USA, the odds are pretty good that at some point you were required to write a haiku in class. Your teacher probably sat you all down and gave you a little lecture on the history and culture of Japan that may or may not have been accurate at all,...
by Rowan | Feb 1, 2016 | Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s February, and you know what that means: sonnets. Has it really been a year since I wrote that how to write a sonnet post? Whoa. Well, I still don’t want to write it all again, so I suggest you open that little link in a separate window. This year...
by Rowan | Feb 1, 2016 | Writing Help, YeahWrite
In the span of a breath, everything changes. We all have our moments of epiphany. Cataclysmic shifts in personality, thought structure, aha or eureka moments. We also all change slowly, over time, as we develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2016 | Writing Help
“What’s a so what?” Of all the requirements for a good nonfiction essay, the so what can be the most elusive, and not just because it’s not a term that most people have heard before. In fact, one way of describing the “so what” in a...
