by Michelle Longo | May 29, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Get to the Point When writing flash nonfiction, as we discussed last week, you do not have the luxury of either time or words. We talked about not going off on tangents, not wasting time on every single detail, and avoiding backstory overkill. But how do you do that,...
by Nathan James | May 23, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
Counting eggs Have you ever reread one of your stories and realized you forgot to include a key detail? I so do this all the time. My brain is so focused on the details of a story I forget to mention the setting or describe a character. Just this weekend I almost...
by Michelle Longo | May 22, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Where’s Cindy? In case you missed it last week, Cindy has left the building. (Fun fact: YeahWrite does not have an actual building.) She’s working on some stuff that requires her full attention, so she had to bid us farewell. Now that I’m back...
by Asha Rajan | May 16, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
The Summary Of All Its Parts Many years ago, I worked at a university. Part of my job was to write and edit academic papers and reports. Anyone who’s ever written such a report knows that often the only part of it anyone actually reads is the executive summary. So,...
by Cindy R | May 15, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
All Good Things… This is my last missive as YeahWrite’s nonfiction editor. Well, for now. We joke on the staff that YeahWrite is the “Hotel California” of online writing communities – you know, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. I’ve...
by Nathan James | May 9, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
I’ve Heard It All Before I’m gonna ask all of you to indulge me a moment while I fess up to a writing pet peeve. Out of all the thousands of clichés in all of writing history there is one that almost always makes me grit my teeth: Tears. (You...
