by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Bigger is better? We’ve been pretty stingy with words over the last few months. This month, we’re feeling a little more generous! Like, so generous! And it’s not just because our sample story originally came in at 2,700 words, at least 2,100 of which...
by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 22, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Technical difficulties I am a technophile. I love new gadgets, I love new online tools, I love playing around with settings and learning by trial and error. And yet, lately, it feels like new technologies are coming at me at a hundred miles a minute. Prodigy,...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 20, 2020 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
It’s a long road There’s a lot that goes into making a Super Challenge. There’s finding judges who meet our standards: editors, authors, educators, and professionals who really know what they’re talking about when they read your work and give...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 20, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
But what if I don’t die? It is going to come as exactly zero surprise to anyone who knows me that I went through a fairly serious goth phase. And by “phase” I mean I’ve added two colors to my closet since then and I wear blue jeans now instead...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 13, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
I’m one of the lucky ones Hi, I’m Rowan. And like many freelance writers and editors, I work from home. That means that quarantining myself has been kind of a minimum of effort. I also don’t have kids, so I don’t have to worry about them being...
by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 29, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
What have I done? Look, February’s 20/20 was heckin’ hard. We almost died trying to get our story down to wordcount. The good news is, that’s the tightest wordcount you’re going to have all year. The bad news is… we’re still taking...
