by Rowan | Mar 8, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Heck off, sun. Stacie may be ready for Daylight Saving Time, but I’m staying in bed and NOT GETTING UP EVER EVER. I’m putting up the blackout curtains, and tunneling in until November or whenever it stops being light not only after work but after...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Mar 6, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Spring Forward! Longer days elevate my mood even more than warmer temperatures, and that is saying a lot. And this weekend we set the clocks ahead for daylight saving time, so the light will stay with us later in the day. [Ed’s note: NO. no nonononono no no no...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 6, 2019 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Once upon a time… Okay, so it was really only last week. Asha and I stumbled across a fun little Twitter contest from the Fairy Tale Review, where participants were asked to tell a complete fairy tale in a single tweet. (You can read some of the results by...
by Michelle Longo | Mar 2, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Way Back When We’re coming up on seven years since I submitted my first post* to YeahWrite. It was terrible. On the surface it was about a box of crackers, but it was actually about my relationship with a former coworker. I don’t remember exactly how the...
by Rowan | Mar 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Magic beans? Stacie may have her bean soup, but I prefer bean tea. Or as you plebians probably call it, coffee. It lets me go about my day without killing anyone, although those 40+ research tabs I have open in my browser for this story have convinced me I could get...
by Rowan | Mar 1, 2019 | Writing Help, YeahWrite, Year of Fearless Writing
Welcome to the Year of Fearless Writing! You write. I mean, that's why you're here. But how often do you say "I'm a writer?" And what's the difference between "I write" and "I'm a writer" anyway? Over the last five years, YeahWrite--besides being a great place to...