by Erica Mullenix | May 21, 2013 | Challenge, Open, summer series 2013, YeahWrite
Is this your first time here? Writers are readers! Welcome! If you have a well-told personal essay or traditional blog anecdote to share with us, and it’s no longer than 600 words, please feel free to join us for our friendly little writing competition. Check...
by Erica Mullenix | May 14, 2013 | Challenge, Open, Q & A, YeahWrite
Read this before you post this week. There will be a test. Because we love you and want you to be successful. Yeah write weekly writing challenge #109 is open this week, don’t worry. We decided to attach this refresher course to an actual challenge instead of...
by Louise Ducote | May 7, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Learning from each other My friend Karen once took a semester-long writing workshop with a teacher who used this method: every week each student brought in a short piece of fiction to read aloud. The moment the teacher lost interest or felt offended by a run-on...
by Louise Ducote | Apr 30, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Fuel up at yeah write The best writing advice I ever heard came from my mom, who is not a writer but is very smart about the important things. She said fledgling writers should not get jobs in bookstores or teaching English, in editing or anything else that seems...
by Louise Ducote | Apr 23, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Yeah write in action Last week we highlighted seven writers from the best of yeah write grid, Michelle Longo among them. We already loved Michelle for showing up on time every week, for spreading the word about yeah write and for studiously applying our little writing...
by Erica Mullenix | Apr 16, 2013 | BlogHer, Challenge, Open, the speakeasy, VOTY, YeahWrite
We’re now headed into year three. You ready? We’ve got you all fixed up: clean template, clear navigation, an illustrated and streamlined “how yeah write works” page. What can stop us? Nothing. Let’s do this thing. Challenge v. the...
