by Rowan | Aug 23, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Surprise! One of my favorite parts of collaborating with other writers is handing them little surprises. Nothing big, just a moment or two in the story that’s designed to delight them. Most of those end up on the cutting room floor, of course, being darlings...
by Rowan | Aug 16, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Dying of deadlines It’s the last week of the Super Challenge, and last round’s winners are waiting for their prompt. It’s the last day of this week’s grids, and those winners wanna know, too. In the meantime, all I’ve won is three sets of...
by Rowan | Aug 14, 2019 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Winning – or advancing in – a writing competition should be a matter of skill, not luck. But I’ll be very real with y’all: this time it almost came down to luck. In more than one of our groups, despite our distributed judging method, there were...
by Rowan | Aug 9, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Rough re-entry Some people (cough*Nate*cough) take a break from writing and return invigorated. They have new ideas, new energy, new passion for their work. And if that’s you, I’m jealous, because when I take a break from writing it’s like …...
by Rowan | Aug 2, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Day Three It’s my third day alone in the house and I’ve gone the genteel kind of feral that has me subsisting on liver-pate-and-egg burritos and rum raisin ice cream bars. Protip: microwave the takoyaki before toasting (don’t @ me, I don’t have...
by Rowan | Jul 26, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
I’m baaaaaaack Didja miss me? That was a heck of a road trip, y’all, but we made it. Came back with some stories to tell, and some that we’re not ready to tell yet, and some that we may never tell. That’s the nature of stories, right? I even...
