by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 22, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Time keeps on slipping, slipping We’ve talked about how the pandemic has made time feel strange: months feel like days, weeks feel like years, and who even knows what day of the week it is today. It almost makes the annual holiday season time slip feel comfortable, a...
by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 15, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
I See the Lights If you ask me to be completely honest, I’m still riding high on this week’s Scarlet Quill meeting. Our panel delivered almost an hour of analysis of the tropes of Hallmark Christmas Movies, and then they turned around and gave us the plot...
by Christine Hanolsy | Nov 17, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Short fiction is in trouble If you’ve been running around in the short fiction writing community for any length of time, you know that there has been a lot of upheaval and uncertainty. The onslaught of AI-generated story submissions, an increase in scams and...
by Christine Hanolsy | Oct 20, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
FINALLY I love the photo Arden chose for this week’s post. The light slanting through the trees, the hint of frost (or rain, if you’re in the Pacific Northwest) in the air, the swooshing sound of the leaves as you wade through them: these are some of the...
by Christine Hanolsy | Sep 22, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
On the menu My younger child has been experimenting in the kitchen lately. He’s playing around with frozen treats. He loves to try different egg dishes. Lately a lot of his choices are Asian-inspired, and I have to say I’m not complaining. His specialty is...
by Christine Hanolsy | Aug 25, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
All’s well that ends well As I’m writing this, summer is drawing to a close. My family has been surprisingly busy over the last couple of months and it’s been hard to fit writing into my schedule. I keep saying, just wait till summer ends and the...
