by Erica Mullenix | Sep 4, 2012 | Open, YeahWrite
[huge]1[/huge] “”Before finalizing our plans for summer vacation, my boys and I managed to meet up with Navy SEAL Team 6 and kill Osama bin Laden.” [huge]2[/huge] “”While I was pushing my toddler through the park in his stroller, he began...
by Erica Mullenix | Aug 28, 2012 | Open, YeahWrite
I run a little artisanal cheese shop called Oka Cheese, located in a very tiny corner of a very large metropolitan area. Oka is a quiet place filled with calmly quiet people—the exception being one Kristin D. Wald— and no one bothers me here. As you walk...
by Erica Mullenix | Aug 21, 2012 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
For those of you who were here with us the entire summer: are you ready for some football? Oh, wait. Wrong tagline. Right sentiment. For those of you returning after a summer hiatus: how dare you put family and vacations and various projects ahead of yeah write? This...
by Friend YeahWrite | Aug 14, 2012 | Open, summer series 2012, YeahWrite
[header_box_1 title=”the yeah write 2012 summer writer’s series, part 7″] Week Seven: fly, fly fly on your own, no flying monkeys Please welcome guest editor Jane D who tweets as @greatersafety and blogs at A Place of Greater Safety. If you have any...
by Kristin W | Aug 8, 2012 | Open, summer series 2012, Writing Help, YeahWrite
[header_box_1 title=”the yeah write 2012 summer writer’s series, part 6″] Week Six: organizing a compelling post structure Please welcome back today’s contributing editor Kristin W who tweets as @kdwald and blogs at That Unique* Weblog. If you...
by Erica Mullenix | Aug 7, 2012 | Open, summer series 2012, Writing Help, YeahWrite
You have to know the rules before you can break the rules. That truism applies to so many things, and I’ve always applied it to writing and other art forms. So many people will look at a photograph or a particular book and declare, quite falsely: I could have...
