by Meg | Feb 10, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] To sonnet or not to sonnet… I have to admit, my attempts at writing a sonnet have led me to hero-worship Fezzik, the rhyming giant in the Princess Bride. Rhyming is work. Poetry is work. Patricia...
by Michelle Longo | Feb 9, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Creating a space When I first decided I’d get serious about writing, I didn’t have a specific place to do it. We had a home office, but it was a cluttered mess with barely a place to sit down. I did most of my writing on my couch or my dining room table,...
by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 4, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! A few days ago communities all over North America made a big deal of pulling groundhogs out of their burrows to get a weather prediction. It’s one of humankind’s silliest...
by Natalie DeYoung | Feb 3, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to the fiction and poetry challenge at yeah write My high school English teacher junior year was a character. Always coated in chalk dust, he would talk to the pigeons outside and sometimes frighten us with a decades-old,...
by Michelle Longo | Feb 2, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Let it burn It’s been a while since I’ve shared an essay from Brevity to inspire you. As I was combing through my inbox this weekend I found one that resonated with me so much that I felt I couldn’t be alone. I suspect that envy is something many of...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jan 28, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Lately I’ve been in the kind of mood that makes me want to hunker down in my own little corner of the galaxy, ignore the rest of the star system and stick to my familiar routines....
