by Asha Rajan | Jun 13, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
When Flash Goes Rogue I’ve made a rod for my own back. Several weeks ago, I wrote a flash speculative fiction piece that centred around the theme word revenge. In a nutshell, the main character goes all Lorena Bobbitt on her boyfriend, in revenge for a presumed...
by Michelle Longo | Jun 12, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
We are who we are Think about the most difficult thing you’ve ever written. What was hard about it? Why was it outside your comfort zone? For me, I tend to have an easier time writing emotional content – feeling hurt, sad, or scared. I can also write...
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 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...
