by Rowan | Oct 4, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
IT IS MY SEASON AND I DONT CARE WHO KNOWS HOW HAPPY I AM It’s pouring rain outside. I just ate grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. The sun goes down at a reasonable @#!$!@# hour. And I have more energy than at any time of the year. Which is good, because...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Oct 2, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Let’s Taco Bout It Oh hey, Friday is NATIONAL TACO DAY and I couldn’t be more excited. Can you tell? Except I can’t get quality tacos in Massachusetts the way I can in my home state of California. MA is more of a lobsta state, which is good in its...
by Christine Hanolsy | Oct 2, 2019 | Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
I ain’t afraid of no ghost I am, however, afraid of things that go bump in the night. And the monster that lives under my bed. And whatever it is that’s hiding behind the furnace in our dimly-lit basement. You’ll never catch me watching a typical...
by Christine Hanolsy | Oct 1, 2019 | Writing Help, YeahWrite, Year of Fearless Writing
Welcome to the Year of Fearless Writing! You write. I mean, that's why you're here. But how often do you say "I'm a writer?" And what's the difference between "I write" and "I'm a writer" anyway? Over the last five years, YeahWrite--besides being a great place to...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
… the five of you who know that the next line is “I knew him, Horatio” not “I knew him well” are feeling pretty smug right now, aren’t you? Laugh while you can, because this month’s poetry slam is no joking matter. Like...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Sep 28, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
For Science! When I first started writing for the grids, it took me a long time to lose some of the habits I’d developed writing scientific papers for years. Passive voice? BYE BYE. Long, convoluted sentences? I’m working on it. But one thing I refuse to...
