by Christine Hanolsy | Aug 23, 2015 | badges, Kickoff, ultimate question, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We’re on fire Right now Oregon is burning. Washington and northern California, too. The air is thick and heavy with smoke, and I live hundreds of miles away from the nearest wildfire. It’s hard to ignore. There’s a...
by Christine Hanolsy | Aug 16, 2015 | Kickoff, ultimate question, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Breakdown No, I’m not having one, though some days it feels like it would be easier to just throw my hands in the air and my writing dreams out the window. Is it really worth the effort? Should I stop before it gets harder? Am...
by Christine Hanolsy | Aug 9, 2015 | Kickoff, ultimate question, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We are all storytellers here Whether you write personal essays, fiction, poetry or microstories, we’re all here for one thing: to tell the stories that matter to us. We believe we provide a safe space to do that, and week...
by Christine Hanolsy | Aug 2, 2015 | Kickoff, ultimate question, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Find your tribe.” Cindy R. of The Reedster Speaks said this to me a couple weeks ago. It’s a bit of wisdom she tries to impart to all the students in her writing classes. Writing is sometimes lonely, solitary work...
by Natalie DeYoung | Jul 26, 2015 | badges, Kickoff, ultimate question, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Headline Christine is out of town right now, probably hunting wild rabbits in some tundra wilderness. Or wait, was she snorkeling with sharks in South Africa? I can’t remember, but she might have told me she was going to soak...
by Meg | Jul 19, 2015 | badges, Kickoff, ultimate question, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I spy with my little eye After nearly 10 years and three billion miles, the New Horizons mission gave Earthlings a big glimpse of our youngest fellow planet in the solar system, little Pluto. (Yes, I called Pluto a planet. NASA...