by Rowan | Jul 13, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Low Fidelity If you weren’t a music nerd back in the day, the high fidelity / low fidelity (hifi) split probably doesn’t ring any bells. On the other hand, it might in your writing. Are you a high fidelity writer, focused on one piece at a time, polishing...
by Rowan | Jul 6, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Well, heck, it’s time for our annual uncomfortable talk Back in the day, when YeahWrite was yeah write and we did a summer teaching series instead of the Super Challenge (ask me how that went, while everyone wanted to take a summer vacation) (kidding, it was...
by Rowan | Jun 29, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Speechless “Do something.” That’s what everyone around us is saying, isn’t it? Do something. And people are “doing something.” As terrifying as it is. And when you see news about people in the street, about mass shootings, mass...
by Rowan | Jun 22, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
The Shape of the Darkness This is, in some senses, a hard week to be a writer. And in other senses, it’s the only way to live through this week, to describe, as Dimas Ilaw did, the shape of the darkness as it overtakes us. “We need writers because we need...
by Rowan | Jun 15, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Finished! I’ve been rebuilding an old scooter all summer (or at least that’s what it feels like, although summer hasn’t technically started yet). First it was just a matter of siphoning out the old gas and adding new. Then it was replacing the...
by Rowan | Jun 8, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Losing is just a statistic I was at the gym yesterday doing a timed workout with a small class. We had to do a certain amount of work on the stationary bikes, and then a set of movements with dumbbells, three times. One guy was struggling a little, and the class was...
