by Meg | Mar 7, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Balancing work/life writing I write for a living. It isn’t the kind of writing I would like to do—it isn’t terribly creative or exciting, though I try to inject life into dull topics. I am a grants writer. For the last...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 2, 2016 | Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Inspiration can come from anywhere: a children’s game, a grain of sand, an ordinary button, the feel of a word or a phrase in your mouth. Seize it. Just because an idea starts small doesn’t mean it...
by Meg | Feb 29, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why we’re here Spring is just a few weeks away, and the sleepy snowdrops in my garden are lifting their heads to the sky. Rowan hates spring. I can’t remember why, but that I know this at all speaks for our online...
by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 24, 2016 | Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! I’m a fantasy writer, more or less. In my world(s), names have power. I put a lot of thought into choosing and even creating names that mean something–to me, if not to the reader. But we all do...
by Meg | Feb 22, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Practice. I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success with the anticipation that I would learn the secret password that takes an ordinary person and makes them extraordinary. Naturally, I was disappointed to...
by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 17, 2016 | Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Time is what’s weighing on my mind this week. How about you? I took a day off from work on Monday, and now I’m paying for it. My inbox is overflowing, my to-do list just keeps getting longer, I am...
