by YeahWrite Editor | Jun 14, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Summer reading My summer officially starts next week, with the end of my son’s school year. I don’t know when I’ll manage to write again, but I do know I’ll read more during my less structured schedule. I love to read! Speaking of reading,...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jun 13, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
When Flash Goes Rogue I’ve made a rod for my own back. Several weeks ago, I wrote a flash speculative fiction piece that centred around the theme word revenge. In a nutshell, the main character goes all Lorena Bobbitt on her boyfriend, in revenge for a presumed...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jun 12, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
We are who we are Think about the most difficult thing you’ve ever written. What was hard about it? Why was it outside your comfort zone? For me, I tend to have an easier time writing emotional content – feeling hurt, sad, or scared. I can also write...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jun 11, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Crookneck Squash When I’m pressed for time and deadlines loom, I like to procrastinate by reading random things I wrote years ago. While casually wasting time yesterday, I found a charming sentence I concocted involving crookneck squash. I haven’t thought...
by Arden Ruth | Jun 9, 2017 | Weekend Showcase, YeahWrite
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! Happy Friday, YeahWriters! Assuming my road trip has gone to plan, and my Dad and I haven’t ended up in Canada at some point, I should be pulling into my new home of Seattle, Washington sometime today. I’m trying not...
by Rowan | Jun 9, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
When it rains, it pours It’s been a bad couple weeks for writing for me; I’m 3/4 of the way through a porch remodel and it’s only intermittently sunny in my city, so my days have been divided between frantically trying to work in the sunny hours,...
