by Stacie Dalrymple | Mar 4, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Very important editor’s note: I’m going to let Stacie talk in just a second, but I want to have a word with you about the grids. Are you missing having 3 votes on each grid? Me, too. You get more consistent, nuanced results in the popular vote, and people...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Feb 26, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
I Wish I wish for so many things to be different right now: in my private world, in THE world. Sometimes it feels like everying is spiraling out of control. But the ten-day meditation retreat I attended last December taught that this very thing–the...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Feb 19, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
See Spot Run I saw a Dalmation in the woods today and it made me realize it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen this particular breed. One of my classmates in graduate school had one, an extremely well-behaved dog named Jupiter, who would sit in the...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Feb 12, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Orange You Glad? I know, I know. I AM that kind of person. But orange you glad that Sumos are back in season? And before you get on my case, yes, I know the oranges in the photo are not Sumos, but sometimes a person has to make do. Also, orange you glad it’s...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Feb 5, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Sweet Treat I wasn’t going to write about sweets but this photo is so pretty that I’m just going with it. I don’t have much of a sweet tooth anymore, which is a big change from when I was younger, but small beautiful treats like this are always very...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jan 29, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
New story energy It’s funny, the things that inspire you to write. In my case, it was the January 20/20 Hindsight assignment. A short story turned into a novella and then into something that promises to be even bigger and better, and now that new story energy is...
