by Stacie Dalrymple | Apr 10, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Clothes Pile I need to get my act together and clean out my closet. Now (for the past 8 years) that I spend most of my time in sweatpants or yoga pants, I have way too many clothes. I put real clothes on only about twice per week, and by real clothes, I mean jeans or...
by Nathan James | Apr 6, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Welp, I am a Libra. Balance. It’s always in the back of my head when we choose the month’s fiction|poetry writing prompt themes. Are we trying to push you all out of your comfort zones with the prompts? Or are we just trying to give you building blocks so...
by Rowan | Apr 5, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
You may say I’m a dreamer… It’s Friday, and once again I didn’t get enough sleep during the week. But it’s for a good reason: I spent some of those extra hours chasing a real-life dream of mine. If you dream of being a writer, that dream...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Apr 3, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
For Shame My dog Buster split his toenail last Sunday and has been wearing the “cone of shame” and on antibiotics for the past week. I finally de-coned him today, and he’s much happier, obviously. I’m happier too, since it’s pretty sad to...
by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 3, 2019 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
The sublimity of language Words are beautiful things, don’t you think? And language is an incredible tool, capable of describing the ineffable and translating one person’s experience into something more universal by putting the right words in the right...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
April is National Poetry Month, and you know what that means! Actually, no, you don’t, because honestly we are not well-organized adults all the time and for at least the past few years we’ve dropped the ball on doing something cool for National Poetry...
