by Rowan | Jan 27, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Soooooo 2016 is apparently “the year Rowan watches all the Mad Max movies back to back as many times as possible.” It’s for science, guys. Science!...
by Meg | Jan 25, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Find your story beneath the surface I could write a rant this week about how a certain insurance company, whose spokesperson is a woman named Flo, is trying to stick me with partial responsibility for a car accident I didn’t...
by Rowan | Jan 22, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Voice. It’s what’s in our heads this week. From our nonfiction opener to Christine’s realization that she now talks like her main character, we’ve been paying attention this week to the ways we choose to...
by Meg | Jan 18, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Listen carefully. Voice is essential to making your writing your own. If you write a creative nonfiction piece on the same subject as another person, your voice is what makes it distinctive. It isn’t the style of writing;...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jan 17, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Still waters There’s a lot that goes on under the surface around here. Some things are easy enough to spot, and others sink deep down into the silt. You see the posts go up every week, and the grids and the coffeehouse...
by Rowan | Jan 13, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here So, what’s your punctuation pox? I never met a pair of sentences I couldn’t cram together with a semicolon. Christine’s commas breed like tribbles....