by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 17, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to the fiction and poetry challenge at yeah write This week’s ultimate question reminds me of the first lightbulb I had in a creative writing course. I was assigned to read Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words by...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 16, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
I’m about to get real. Real-deal real. Life has a funny way of pulling us in multiple directions at once. Between work, family and various other extracurriculars, it’s hard, sometimes, to carve out time for everything. But writing is the sort of thing that...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 15, 2015 | badges, Kickoff, ultimate question, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Loss of a legend I admit it: I’m an unabashed fantasy fan. Don’t fall over in shock. Last week the genre lost one of its greatest authors to a relatively short battle with early onset Alzheimer’s. Terry Pratchett...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 13, 2015 | moonshine, YeahWrite
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open I can always tell when it’s the beginning of spring because the air starts to smell perfumed in my neighborhood again, especially in the mornings as I’m walking the dog. The jasmine climbing along the...
by Rowan | Mar 13, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite
The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth all the effort. Those aren’t the first words in Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, but they’re the first ones I read, and they caught me immediately. This, I thought, is how you tell...
by Rowan | Mar 11, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here. Also, Rowan swears in this post. [editor’s note: this rant has been sitting in my drafts folder for several months. I reached critical mass this week but that...
