by Rowan | Nov 1, 2015 | Writing Help, YeahWrite
Hey you. Yeah, you. Over here. Psst. C’mere. Want to buy a… love letter? Of course you don’t. As much as it’s awesome to get feedback on your work, nobody actually enjoys finding out that there’s more work to do on a post before...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Are you tired of the fiction|poetry grid getting all the love? Yeah, me too. Nonfiction – essays, memoirs, and creative nonfiction of all types – was one of my first loves, and I’ll be clinging to it with my cold, inkstained fingers before I quit writing it. Editors...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2015 | Poetry Slam, Writing Help
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I love our poetry slams. I love learning new forms, trying something I haven’t tried before, and putting it out there into the world for other writers to look at and help me focus on. But I thought...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2015 | Writing Help, YeahWrite
Noir. To the Francophones among us, it’s just a word. No, seriously, English language, why you gotta do us like that? But it was a French movie critic, Nino Frank, who introduced the term “film noir” (“black film”) in 1946 to describe the...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Imagine your life was a musical. I don’t care if the image that comes to mind is Hollywood or Bollywood, you get what I mean. At appropriate moments all the characters stop talking, turn to each other, and start singing what they mean instead. This is the basic...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Do you ever feel like you’re reading the same story again and again, with just a few elements changed? Chances are, you have been – and that’s a good thing. Like that moment when you figure out that every song that’s been popular in the past 30...
