by Rowan | Jun 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I’m counting on you. Okay, I didn’t pick this month’s poetry slam for all the puns, but I sure could have. I could use a little humor these days, don’t know about you. Anyway. So about June. I’ve been thinking a lot these days about...
by Rowan | May 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Roger. Copy that. Let’s talk tech. Technique, that is. Technique is about more than just copying a poem’s form, although we’ve been having a lot of fun doing that and building muscle memory while we’re at it. Technique is the building blocks to...
by Rowan | Apr 2, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I remembered! Y’all, I have forgotten National Poetry month for like… mumble of the mumblemumble years I’ve worked with YeahWrite. You have no idea how excited I am that I remembered this year. I thought about making this month a poetry free-for-all...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
April Fools! No, kidding. April slam. April poetry slam. It’s purely a coincidence that this slam went live on the last day you have to get something on the fiction|poetry grid for the first day of April. ANYWAY. For 2020 our poetry slams are exploring...
by Rowan | Feb 29, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s rhyme time! Yes, you heard me right. After all those months bagging on sonnets, I’m giving in. Let’s talk about rhyme. Rhyme is probably the first thing you learned about poetry: it’s just words that end in the same sound. Usually that...
by Rowan | Feb 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Cliche One of the most frequent pieces of advice given to new writers is to avoid cliche. Of course, we also tell them to learn the rules of grammar and syntax, structure their persuasive essays “Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion,” and avoid long...
