by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 23, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Burn and fizzle Sunday was my two year blog anniversary. I remember that night after my first post. I couldn’t sleep; I kept thinking of better ways to phrase my sentences or fretting that I’d missed a typo. Even after...
by Arden Ruth | Feb 22, 2016 | Interview Series, Who's on Fourth, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to who’s on fourth where we interview one member of the yeah write community and the interview will publish the fourth Monday of each month. Next in the series features Arden of Arden Ruth Writes interviewing Tina of Not Just...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 22, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Practice. I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success with the anticipation that I would learn the secret password that takes an ordinary person and makes them extraordinary. Naturally, I was disappointed to...
by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 21, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What’s in a name? Names are important—not just for people and places, but for things. Are you using the right word at the right time? Rowan talked about this in her voting post last week—which you all read, of course—but it...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 19, 2016 | moonshine, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Right around this time of year, I start fantasizing about vacation. A tropical beach somewhere, a cappuccino in a European square, it doesn’t really matter where as long...
by Rowan | Feb 19, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I don’t often post-mortem the grids. Not publicly, I mean. It’s not fair, right? I have access to all the inside information. J/K there’s no inside information- the editors read every piece with an eye to skill,...