by Rowan | Sep 30, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners
You don’t have to be the first one to the finish line to be the winner. The length of time it takes you to produce your work doesn’t necessarily affect when a reader will enjoy it. For example, I was definitely the last of my friends to see the...
by Rowan | Sep 23, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Read between the lines. You’ve heard about that, right? It’s the way you can find out more about the writer by reading their writing than maybe they intended you to know. It helps you develop your critical reading skills, too. For example, you can often find...
by Rowan | Sep 16, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners
Everything is on my last @#$#@#$ nerve this morning. My spouse is sick, which means a lot of dramatic coughing but also talking for two solid hours about nothing at all (just kidding! it was the same thing over and over again!) like an exhausted toddler. The dog wants...
by Rowan | Sep 9, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
It’s a big week at yeah write, and our fictioneers are the real winners – all of them. We opened the week with a special microstories challenge, and a lot of you took us up on it! Then we gave you a sneak preview of the fiction super challenge that’s...
by Rowan | Sep 2, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]They say the devil’s in the details. Sometimes that’s details like the textiles depicted in a Safavid manuscript (why did I take this commission, this might be the fiddliest piece of reproduction I’ve ever fiddled...
by Rowan | Aug 26, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I’ve spent a lot of time this week thinking about deadlines. I’ve also spent a lot of time this week making a color-coded chart of all the deadlines I have to meet in the next ten days, which may or may not be...
