by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 16, 2014 | gargleblaster, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Greetings, Earthlings! Do you hear that? Yeah, me too. Maybe it’s just that the kids are in bed, but there’s a certain something I’m hearing in the [relative] silence. If I concentrate really hard, I think I can pick out the scritch-scritch-scritch of a hundred...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 11, 2014 | gargleblaster, Microprose, Winners, YeahWrite
Greetings, Earthlings! How are you all doing? Feeling full of grace? I have to say, I love what you all did with this week’s ultimate question: Did Grace say that, too? It was a hard one. You were working with a question around which it was difficult to create...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 10, 2014 | gargleblaster, Microprose, Voting, YeahWrite
Greetings, Earthlings! This was a particularly tricky question; we know it. That was on purpose. We wanted to push you a bit to see how you handled it. The question forced us to think about context, but also about structure. How did you approach the question?...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 9, 2014 | gargleblaster, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Greetings, Earthlings! Summer is almost here, and our thoughts are turning towards barbecues, vacations, and that ever-growing pile of books on our bedside tables. To be a writer is to be, above all, a reader, and yet it seems like there’s never enough time to do...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 4, 2014 | gargleblaster, Microprose, Winners, YeahWrite
Greetings, Earthlings! It was a crazy couple of days over at the gargleblaster! We closed the grid in record time – 10 hours – and a few people were taken by surprise, myself included. Those of you who were more on the ball than I was managed to hitchhike,...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 3, 2014 | gargleblaster, Microprose, Voting, YeahWrite
Greetings, Earthlings! A little bird told me you had fun with this prompt. I logged on at 6:30 AM Pacific time, and the grid was hopping. By about 7:00 (10:00 AM Eastern), the grid was full. That’s 10 hours, people. This editor never had a chance! I even gave up...
