by Rowan | May 17, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Vote, vote, like a baby stoat! If you’re in the USA like me, chances are you voted on Tuesday. But it’s Wednesday now, so if you’ve still got that voting fever, have I got an opportunity for you: Popular voting for the yeah write #318 weekly writing...
by Rowan | May 17, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
I love fiction. Left to my own devices I’ll read and write it all day… unless someone’s left an Ann Rule book sitting out where I can see it. See, it’s not just that the true crime genre is fascinating in its sensationalist (and, okay, often...
by Rowan | May 17, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and Round Two of the Super Challenge took that literally, giving eighteen writers a chance to tell us a thousand words and include that gorgeous visual prompt. Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 16, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
The Summary Of All Its Parts Many years ago, I worked at a university. Part of my job was to write and edit academic papers and reports. Anyone who’s ever written such a report knows that often the only part of it anyone actually reads is the executive summary. So,...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 15, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
All Good Things… This is my last missive as YeahWrite’s nonfiction editor. Well, for now. We joke on the staff that YeahWrite is the “Hotel California” of online writing communities – you know, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. I’ve...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 14, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
I’m Throwing Down a Challenge Why do we write? I suppose there are many reasons, but I think all of them can get traced back to one simple idea: we want to be read. Whether it’s that we hope to publish a book, or get our short story picked up in a journal,...
