by Christine Hanolsy | Aug 21, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Boundaries I used to be good at this—at using the small breaks between tasks to write, or at least to think about writing. I carried a little notebook with me wherever I went (okay, I still do that, but usually I just use my phone nowadays). Give me fifteen minutes,...
by Christine Hanolsy | Aug 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Tap tap, is this thing on? Think about this: you’re at a party. You’re telling your favorite anecdote about the time you hid a bunch of frogs under a basket in the garage, and what happened when they got loose (spoilers: they scared your mom half to death...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jul 31, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Just? It’s probably my least favorite word in the English language, honestly: JUST. Not only because right now “just” and “justice” are super-fraught words, but because they’re weaponized in other ways. “Just write,”...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jul 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Out of time No, not you: you’ve still got plenty of time to join us! That’s the joy of the Hindsight 2020 series: you can hop in at any point along the way. No, this month we’re talking about chronology—the order of events in your story. Sometimes it...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 26, 2020 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
2020 is more than halfway over, but it feels like it’s been years since our last nonfiction competition instead of just a few months. Hopefully you’ve got lots of stories to tell, because we want to hear them! Registration opens today for YeahWrite’s...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 12, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Tell me a story When the world–the outside world or our internal landscape–gets too big to look at, one way we process is with stories. Stories are important: they let us examine aspects of reality, learn about each other, or access our feelings. Right now we’re...
