by Louise Ducote | Feb 26, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
I had a teacher who used to say of our messy short stories, “It’s never done until it’s in print.” Blogging wasn’t a thing back then so “in print” meant an editor had to say, “Hey! Let’s print this!” Her...
by Louise Ducote | Feb 19, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
While driving around the hills of central Texas, I try to listen to things that make my mind feel shored-up rather than soupy. Spanish podcasts, news in Spanish, sometimes Spanish pop stations until the brain-soup effect sets in with the repetition of certain...
by Louise Ducote | Feb 11, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Pork, anyone? If you’re telling a nonfiction anecdote (and if you’re not, sidle on over to the speakeasy with your fiction and poetry), you know the ending. You know your uncle lofted the burned pork tenderloin across the dining room and, for months, the...
by Erica Mullenix | Feb 5, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Challenge grid v. the speakeasy The challenge grid is for the traditional blog anecdote and personal essay. The speakeasy is for fiction and poetry. If you’re here for the first time, welcome! Please have a look around, click a few links and, if it seems like a...
by Louise Ducote | Jan 29, 2013 | invitational, Open, YeahWrite
One-sentence pitch After spending a couple of years writing a novel, you either give it a proper burial in the lowest drawer of the tilting metal file cabinet, or you come up with a one-sentence pitch that describes your masterpiece. Then you start repeating that...
by Louise Ducote | Jan 22, 2013 | Challenge, invitational, Open, YeahWrite
Writing it 0ut Ever read a short story called Twenty Minutes? Written by James Salter, it’s from the excellent collection Dusk and Other Stories. The story moves swiftly through twenty minutes of a woman’s life while sketching all the years that came before and...
