by Rowan | Jan 22, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Voice. It’s what’s in our heads this week. From our nonfiction opener to Christine’s realization that she now talks like her main character, we’ve been paying attention this week to the ways we choose to...
by Rowan | Jan 8, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sometimes it’s hard to turn off the editorial bit of my brain.Not that it’s the worst thing ever, critical reading and listening. Heaven knows I advocate for it here often enough. But it can also make you do things like...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My very large dog had surgery two days ago. She’ll be taking a variety of medications for the next fourteen days, some of which make her both needy and incontinent. What I’m saying is 2016 is off to a squishy, warm start...
by Rowan | Dec 25, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Wow, Christmas already? There’s only one week left in 2015? Welp. I guess this is a perfect chance for me to talk about word order and typos, amirite? See, here’s one of my favorite Christmas stories. In the Greek text of...
by Rowan | Dec 18, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What’s on your mind? I like to play a little game sometimes when I’m reading through posts, especially from some of our more prolific or consistent writers: what are they thinking about that isn’t this post? What...
by Rowan | Dec 11, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Your word for today is “bokeh.” Bokeh (or boke, but when writing for native English speakers I find bokeh gives a more intuitive grasp of the correct pronunciation) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the...
