by Rowan | May 4, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
May the Fourth be with you Except you, Poe Dameron. But hey, you get to be the subject of my narrative rant this week. Mild TLJ spoilers to follow: If you have a character who relentlessly refuses to participate in the plot except to actively work against what your...
by Rowan | Apr 27, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
UFOs and YOU I’m a knitter. Anyone who knows me in person, however tangentially, has seen me with needles and yarn in my hands. My yarn stash is at the point where i have to have rules like “the pretty yarn is allowed to be in the living room and the ugly...
by Rowan | Apr 25, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
I love prompt combos, don’t you? (Kidding, but the results from our last survey say you do, so I’m going to go ahead and assume.) You know what I love even more, though? Sneak peeks into the judges’ group. Overall, our crew had two general comments...
by Rowan | Apr 20, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO… Asha. I wouldn’t tell, but she’s been pretty open about how totally cool it is that YeahWrite’s seventh birthday and her seven-times-seventh birthday fall in the same month. As a present for Asha, why not drop by the...
by Rowan | Apr 13, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
National Poetry Month It’s the first week of Super Challenge 8 and we’ve spent a good deal of it designing prompts. As Spider Robinson once wrote, God is an Iron. Somewhere on the list of “writing prompts you didn’t want life to assign...
by Rowan | Apr 6, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Welcome to our ool. When I was a kid, those signs used to crack me up. You know the one? “Welcome to our ool. Notice there is no “P” in it. Please keep it that way.” It was a friendly and humorous way of stating the rules for folks who for some...
