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 Rowan | Oct 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I have a pretty good visual memory… for reading. In fact, not only can I tell you what I read, I can tell you where on the page it was. And the shapes of the letters line up in my brain and make sense to me. So much sense that I was the state spelling champion....
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Imagine me and you, and you and me… One of the standard exercises for fiction writers is to write a story from the point of view of an inanimate object. It’s rather hard to do well, honestly, largely because so many new writers can’t resist the...
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 Rowan | Aug 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It all hangs together When I was a kid, my dad would take us down to the river, or the lake, and he’d go fishing. In the days when I was still too little to hold even my own downsized pole (the one that sits in a corner here now, in case my niece is ever...
