by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 22, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Manatee Me When I saw this photo, I knew I had to choose it. I have always wanted to see manatees but the few times I’ve been to Florida, I wasn’t in the places they frequent. In March, I’m going with my sister to West Palm Beach, which...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 18, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
See a Movie, then Write I have been going to a lot of movies over the past few months, after years of rarely seeing any. Writing a screenplay is obviously different from writing a short story, but you can get some interesting ideas from watching movies, like how time...
by Rowan | Jan 17, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Rituals Every morning I get up at way-too-early-for-the-West-Coast, because I have East Coast clients that want to have meetings at a reasonable time by their schedule. I hit snooze exactly once. The second time Lizzo informs me that she just took a DNA test, I turn...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 15, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
The Write Way I am glad to be in 2020, but this adjustment of writing the correct year on things is not as straightforward as my desire to be in this year. However many times I have to cross out 2019 and replace it with 2020, I hope to write more than the correct date...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 11, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Word Guilt Whenever my therapist asked me how my week went, I would always mumble to him about how I hadn’t written anything. He found it interesting that I measured my week by the words I DIDN’T write. He asked me how many words I thought I had generated...
by Rowan | Jan 10, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Attitude is key Kidding. I hate that crap. Attitude won’t improve your pay scale (except perhaps, assuming your workplace is committed to fairness and not at all affected by systemic misogyny or racism even unconsciously), your access to healthcare, or your odds...
