I’ll level with you: I’m crushed. It wasn’t about stats, it was about stories. Now, I won challenges – no false modesty – but more: I won you over. It’ll be different, won’t it, now?
This post was made in response to the Trifecta Writing Challenge Trifextra prompt, and the news shared today by the Trifecta crew:
After 2 1/2 amazing years of Trifecting, we are announcing that at the end of this month, Trifecta will be officially closing its doors.
And here’s the prompt:
So, Trifectans, let’s make these last weeks the best ever. Go for it. Jump out of your comfort zones, run wild. Like a bird of paradise, strut your most funky and colourful stuff. Just don’t forget to pay attention to the prompt! Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? This week’s challenge: You’ve got exactly 33 words and one of them must be a palindrome.
Don’t worry – I’m not all bitter. 🙂 This was just my Monday morning, undercaffeinated gut reaction. Expect many laudatory offerings over the next couple of weeks! xoxo
Edited to add:
I posted this over on the Trifecta site. Figured I’d say it here too.
I hardly even know where to start. I mean, the editors know how much I love this place. And I’ve probably annoyed more than a few people with my overenthusiastic cheerleading. Seriously: it’s the first place I go on Monday mornings. But I do understand, a little, what kind of time and energy it takes to keep a site like this running. And the way Trifecta has grown over the last few months! It boggles the mind, that they could keep up for so long. So many, many thanks to Lisa and Joules for their hard work and the hundreds of hours of pure pleasure – both in reading and in writing – that they’ve given us.
Like many others, I came for the challenges and stayed for the community. OK, and the challenges too. But there really is something special about the folks who hang out around here. I’d love the opportunity to keep in touch, keep conversing, keep reading. I’d like to know about some of your other favorite prompt and writing sites (and share a few of my own). I want to follow you all on Twitter (@hanolsy) and run into you on Goodreads (trudgingthroughfog – though I’m woefully inactive over there).
Also, I’d love the chance to do a Trifecta retrospective, where folks could link to their favorite (of their own) Trifecta/Trifextra entry. Maybe it placed in the top three. Maybe it didn’t, but you’re particularly proud of it. Maybe it was something that took you out of your comfort zone, or something that really resonated with your readers, fellow Trifectans included. Maybe it’s something you wish more people had read. I’m no linky expert, but Editors, do you think we could make room for something like that? No judging, no competition, just a flat-out sharing of what Trifectans have done. I’d love to see that.
Christine Hanolsy 
Such a lovely tribute. Thanks Christine.
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wonderful, heartfelt response, Christine – well-said.
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This was brilliant and a lovely tribute as well! ♥ We need a new place to gather and shine as trifectans.
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This is so simple and from the heart. You’ve beautifully expressed the loss we all feel. And I love the everyday-ness of your palindromes. Of course, I’m wildly jealous too. I never won, and now I never will.
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Fantastic write – and what a lovely, lovely tribute to our editors.
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It won me over 🙂
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Couldn’t have been said better. (:
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Super twist, lovely and genuine. You have so much control! You say exactly what you want to say, how you want to say it, and the reader unconditionally approves. That is respect to the craft!
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I like the idea of a retrospective and I look forward to finding more “Trifecta-like” places to play. I discovered Trifecta only recently, I missed a lot! A retrospective would facilitate an opportunity to catch-up.
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I am always so grateful to Trifecta for the friendships I made and the writing it has inspired. Of course I am not going anywhere, but I still feel the sting of loss of this community as if we had somewhere to go each week. I will miss that very much.
Thankfully, I will reading your words in my inbox for as long as you weave them my friend.
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I will miss the creativity of Trifecta and how their amazing writing prompts pushed me creatively to places I had never gone producing some of the best things I have ever written at times. It is such a pity nothing good ever lasts.
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Awww. Love this, Christine. Thankful you come to my email inbox, so I’ll still be reading your amazing words.
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Awesome, Christine. I can hear the swooning all the way across the world. And what a lovely few paragraphs as well. I’ll just second you : )
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A brilliant response to the prompt and a touching tribute to the awesomeness of Trifecta. 🙂
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It’s been a great run, but the only thing constant is change. Your piece is ever mindful of that. Well done!
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Well done 🙂
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Now THAT was clever 🙂 And yes, I feel your pain too 😦
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Lovely sentiment. Clever construction. Thanks for being such a talented role-model for me and for everyone who goes to school each week on the fine, fine work you so consistently create. Thanks, as well, for being so supportive of my own attempts. Your encouragement and advice meant a lot and helped me grow. Glad to have a connection that exists beyond Trifecta. Freakin’ Mondays, eh!? 🙂
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Tom, this might be the nicest thing that anyone has ever said to me. 🙂 You’ve been an inspiration for me, too, and for countless children, I’m sure!
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Of course! How could you not use three prompts for one of the final Trifecta prompt!
And a beautiful response to the prompt as well.
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Sorry, palindromes, not prompts.
Meh.
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Hope to find a new gathering place for Trifectans .
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It will definitely be different 😦
Great twist on the take. Can we start a petition to keep Trifecta alive?
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As much as I’d love to, I know how much work goes into this sort of thing. Lisa & Joules have done an amazing job keeping it going as long as they have. It just wouldn’t be the same without them at the helm. 🙂 I’m hoping we Trifectans can find a new gathering place. I’m already putting together a list of my favorite prompts and writing spots…
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