by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s about the journey, not the destination But the destination is here regardless: it’s December and our Navigating Prompts workshop has come to an end. But don’t worry. We have a tremendously cool (do we still say that?) workshop coming in 2022 to...
by Christine Hanolsy | Nov 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
The more, the merrier Writing to prompts can be a lot of fun, and a great way to spark ideas. So if one prompt is good, more than one should be fantastic, right? They can be! But incorporating several prompts naturally into a story or essay takes a certain amount of...
by Christine Hanolsy | Oct 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Style and substance What makes a story a really good story? Anyone can write a list of events: “this happened, and then this, and I felt like that, and then this other thing happened.” That’s not a story; it’s barely a narrative. Stories...
by Christine Hanolsy | Sep 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Nothing new under the sun There are people who will tell you that there are no new stories. Some will go so far as to put a number on it, and swear that there are really only seven stories in the world, or nine, or twelve, or thirty-six. Whether or not you believe...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jul 30, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Location, location, location If you read a lot of—or any—fan fiction, you’ll know that one of the most common tropes is “the coffeehouse AU.” That is, take all the characters from the movie or book and… put them in a coffeehouse. Who’s...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jul 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Is it possible If you put that search string into Google, you’ll get a lot of autocomplete options. One of the most fascinating ones is “Is it possible to write a story without characters?” The answers are sure, certain: No. Yes. One of our favorite...
