by Arden Ruth | Oct 5, 2018 | Weekend Showcase, YeahWrite
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! Let’s make this place your home for all the stories that didn’t make it to the YeahWrite competitive grids this week. As a refresher, here’s what we had going on! Technique Toolbox: The Joyride Bored? Tired?...
by Rowan | Oct 5, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Spin spin, sugar I rearranged my office this week. Got the club chair that turned into an oubliette for projects out and moved the spinning wheel in. I used to think I hated spinning, but that was when I only had a drop spindle. If you love a drop spindle, more power...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 3, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Read and Be Read This is Michelle, filling in for Stacie who is off this week and most likely drinking wine right now. One of the earliest slogans at YeahWrite was “Read and Be Read.” It sounds perfect, right? We love to read great work, but we also want...
by Christine Hanolsy | Oct 3, 2018 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Boo! It’s October – time to turn our minds to the spooky and scary, the inexplicable and the inevitable. When I first started putting together this micro prompt, I was a little intimidated. Scared, you might say. I haven’t heard a ghost story in...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I don’t know about you, but I get bored no matter what I’m doing, if I do it long enough. Even if it’s writing. My favorite characters start staggering drunkly across the page, my intricate plots begin to dissolve, and my settings go cardboard-flat....
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Raise your hand if you had fun with last month’s poetry slam, the Golden Shovel. For me, part of the fun was going through other people’s poetry, looking for those perfect lines that spoke to me, and then figuring out how I could speak through them. When...
