by Erica Mullenix | Apr 9, 2013 | Challenge, invitational, Open, YeahWrite
We made it! 104 consecutive weeks… No breaks, no hiatus, no downtime, no holidays off, just being here each and every week for two years, all in the name of turning your blog into a pretty good collection of personal essays and interesting stories. Happy...
by Louise Ducote | Apr 2, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
500 words Last summer yeah write hosted a seven-week summer series of excellent writing instruction. . .with a radical 500-word limit on posts. I submitted a post each week; at first it felt like squeezing into pre-baby jeans or being interrupted when I wasn’t...
by Erica Mullenix | Mar 26, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Is this your first time here? Welcome! Please feel free to dive right in. Start here at Sunday’s post then click around for our FAQ and submission guidelines. We may seem like we’re all rules-y, but really we’re doing our best to create a fair and...
by Louise Ducote | Mar 19, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
A second-semester senior already accepted to college, I had to pass chemistry to graduate and I didn’t understand anything. The homework, the lectures, the labs. . .it all drifted by me like a breeze carrying half-conversations in a foreign language and I...
by Louise Ducote | Mar 12, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
What to write All day for two days I wanted to write something. I didn’t know what, just that I hadn’t posted anything in a week and my six readers plus Mom must be getting antsy. I thought about it while walking my dogs, washing dishes, before sleep....
by Louise Ducote | Mar 5, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Writing stuff down and reading it aloud Lucky me grew up in Dallas at a time when poet Tim Seibles (nominated for the National Book Award last year) lived there and did a lot of free readings at a long-dead bar called the 500 Cafe. The bar owner loved my underaged...
