by Stacie Dalrymple | Jun 7, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Tea for three Pour yourself a cup of tea, grab a tasty snack, and settle down to read and vote on three writing challenge grids this week. Yes three! The microprose challenge returns the first week of every month. Happy reading! Popular voting for the yeah write #321...
by Asha Rajan | Jun 7, 2017 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
One Isn’t The Loneliest Number Hoorah! It’s microprose time again. I’m filling in for Christine through the northern hemisphere summer, and I’m so excited. Microprose holds a very special place in my heart. For the past three years, I’ve...
by Nathan James | Jun 6, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
Word Mice I think of them as word mice hiding in little pockets of my stories. These mice are filler words such as seem, turn, and reach with tails and little claws that burrow into the insulation of a story I’m building. They’re tricky. Sometimes writers...
by Michelle Longo | Jun 5, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Write for your purpose. There’s this email archive that’s been haunting me for months now and I finally decided this weekend I’d try to tame it. Somewhere in the thousands of emails I found a three-year-old discussion among some editors about...
by Stacie Dalrymple | May 31, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Sweet treat Happy National Macaroon Day! Yes, really. I can’t think of anything I’d rather do right now than munch on macaroons while voting on the grids. [Ed’s note: do you have any idea how hard it is to find a stock photo of a macaroon rather than...
by Asha Rajan | May 30, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
It Is Easier To Give Than Receive Yesterday, I went to an Australian Rules Football game. Bear with me, I’ll talk about writing. I really will. Without going into the details of scoring, which can be obtuse if you’ve never encountered an AFL game before, my team lost...
