by Rowan | Dec 23, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Depending on where you were on our spinning ball of rock, the shortest or longest night of your year just slipped past. No matter what your faith – if any – these seasonal markers, the systolic and diastolic pulse of the...
by Rowan | Dec 21, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Popular voting for the yeah write #297 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 20, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, YeahWrite
Unfinished business There’s nothing that bugs me more than an unfinished project. Unfinished pieces tend to loom over me like that guy at the party whose name I can’t remember, the one who stands too close to ignore, but just outside the circle of...
by YeahWrite Editor | Dec 19, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Power of the Perfect Verb Never underestimate the power of the perfect verb. One reason it’s so important to edit and revise our drafts at least twice is because when we’re dashing off draft one, we tend to pull out the most...
by YeahWrite Editor | Dec 18, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Oh, December So the thing I love about December is it’s right before January which is a great month for resets. I have to be honest with you: November was terrible for a variety of reasons and December has been one of those...
by Arden Ruth | Dec 16, 2016 | moonshine, Weekend Showcase, YeahWrite
The weekend writing showcase is open! Happy Friday, everyone! I’m off to my firm’s holiday party as this post goes live, and I’m just hoping I don’t become ‘that employee’ after too many glasses of wine, you know? In the meantime,...