by YeahWrite Editor | May 8, 2014 | Challenge, Voting, YeahWrite
It’s the reading and voting jam! We’re still jamming out with the family-free band, and we’re happy that many of you are, too. This week, because the grid collected somewhere between 21 and 30 entries, we each get three votes to dole out to our...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 6, 2014 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
When the canvas is a little too blank I like to use this space to offer you some writing advice. Sometimes an article I read catches my eye and I want to share it. Other times we see a common theme spring up in a prior week’s challenge grid and that becomes the...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 2, 2014 | Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
New to yeah write this week? Welcome! Well hello there, newbies! Two of you joined us as yeah write virgins this week, and we welcome each of you with a high-five and maybe a strawberry sucker. We hope you’ll come back again and join this amazing community,...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 1, 2014 | Challenge, Voting, YeahWrite
Here to read and vote? Welcome! We’re diggin’ all the family free company we’re keeping these days. Everyone likes to write (and read) about something other than good ole’ Uncle Pete and his stinky feet every once in a while. See? This week, we...
by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 29, 2014 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Family? What family?We are knee-deep in a four-week stint of family-free here at yeah write. Last week, you brought us some wonderful pieces on a broad range of topics. We knew you could do it, so keep ’em coming! Pushing our writers to stretch...
by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 27, 2014 | badges, Challenge, gargleblaster, Kickoff, Microprose, YeahWrite
E.B. White wrote in Elements of Style:Vigorous writing is concise. … This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.It’s true that it takes extra time to...
