by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
The final piece This is it: the culmination of a year of work! We’ve looked at your stories and essays inside out and upside down; we’ve changed their shape, size, and even point of view. Whether you participated every month or you decided to pick and...
by Christine Hanolsy | Nov 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
What if? 2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year, and we’re sure we’re not the only ones wondering if we’ve slipped into an alternative timeline or parallel universe—or maybe wishing we had. “What if” sounds like the stuff of speculative...
by Christine Hanolsy | Oct 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Everyone’s a poet Or at least, that’s true this month! At its heart, a poem is often a story using emotion rather than narrative structure to draw the reader in. One of the ways we prove the humanity of our characters – fiction or non- is by helping...
by Christine Hanolsy | Sep 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It was a dark and stormy night … the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating...
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 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...
