by Meg | May 16, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Spring cleaning Every spring, my husband and I purge our garage of cobwebs, leaves, old paint cans, the dirt-filled flower pots that I didn’t empty the previous autumn, bird seed that has scattered across the concrete floor. I...
by Meg | May 9, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Someone is in the details The next time you’re in the check-out line at the grocery store, look at the stuff the person in front of you is buying. Fiber cookies, three bottles of cheap vodka, organic lettuce, pork rinds or...
by Meg | May 2, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Psst–hey, you Yes, you—yeah write writer. I’ve seen you posting those 42 words over on the microstory grid for the last couple of months. Come on over here. Here’s your chance to kick off the week with a new challenge: creative nonfiction or, as we like to...
by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 27, 2016 | Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Greetings Earthlings! My routine is broken. I mean, it’s not all bad. I finished a draft of something I’ve been working on for a million years – which is awesome – but now I have to switch gears and spend more of my time editing instead of...
by Meg | Apr 25, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Variety is the spice Lisa at Pryvate Parts blog submitted two winning nonfiction pieces to yeah write recently. In both she experimented with unconventional structures—in shifting chronology (Unmentionables) and in creating tension by interrupting the narrative with...
by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 20, 2016 | Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! This week’s question is an important one, I think, for all of us: Who cares? If you are a writer – or aspire to be one – the obvious answer is, “I do.” The trick, of course, is...
