by Rowan | Aug 11, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Congratulations on making it to the final round of the YeahWrite Super Challenge! This round you’ll have a new kind of prompt: a sentence. Each writer will incorporate that sentence into an essay about… well, about wherever that sentence takes them for...
by Arden Ruth | Aug 11, 2017 | Weekend Showcase, YeahWrite
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF! Y’all. It’s August. When did this happen? I feel like I say this exact phrase every year. Around this time, I can’t fathom where the entire year has gone and look at all my writing goals withering away with...
by Michelle Longo | Aug 11, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
There’s a First Time for Everything I’m fairly certain that this is the first winners’ post I’ve ever written. But Rowan went and left the building* and now I’m here writing a winners’ post. My calendar tells me she’ll be back...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 9, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Whining I just returned from a week in wine country and now I’m whining because I want to live there right now! Even so, it’s good to be home and sleep in my very own bed. It’s also good to jump back in to YeahWrite! Let’s do it. Popular...
by Rowan | Aug 9, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Whew. That’s over. If personal essays are a creative nonfictioneer’s meat and milk, it’s still important to know how to persuade your audience. That’s what Round Two tested. If you, like many of our writers, felt a little out of your depth,...
by Asha Rajan | Aug 8, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
Accountability Check Hey y’all! Remember two weeks ago I said I was trying something new with my writing? My big plan was to spend ten minutes every day physically writing with a pen and a piece of paper. I was hopeful that this would kick start some creativity,...