Write for the Fight: A Collection of Seasonal Essays
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I’d like to introduce everyone to a woman whose energy is as bountiful as the cup of Dionysus is full of wine. That is to say, overflowing and intoxicating. Tracey Hansen is not a writer to miss.

She has now collaborated with Tess Hardwick and eleven other writers to produce a touching anthology entitled, Write for the Fight: A Collection of Seasonal Essays, which explores where each author has been, where they are, and where they hope to be in their later years. Essentially, love letters to themselves for each part of life, in essay form. Some stories are hilarious, others stirring, but every one is entertaining.

Did I mention that all the author proceeds go to charities helping to find a cure for cancer, or aid in the fight against it? No? Well, I just did.

Fighting to Write for the Fight

When Tess asked me to be her co-conspirator for Write for the Fight I thought it was the booze playing tricks on me. I waited until the next day for the wine-fog to clear to properly process the request. Tess Hardwick…wants to work with…me?

Why the fuck would she want to do that?

But then it made sense. We have such contrasting writing voices that we create great balance for an anthology book. Her writing is like great American Literature, and mine is the equivalent of a dick and fart joke that has been drawn out too long.

After deciding that all the author proceeds would go to charities helping fight against breast cancer, I went to work on my essays. I found that because I was writing for charity that my first few attempts didn’t sound like me. They were toned down versions of me, too politically correct.

I didn’t even say ‘fuck’ once.

After that, I regrouped. I had to take the charity aspect and push it to the side of my mind while I wrote about posing in playboy as an 80 year old and making out with a pillow in front of my grandparents as a five year old. I had to remember to just be me.

It honestly took me two tries with each of the essay topics to get them to a point where I was happy with them. Tess wrote the introduction and I wrote the conclusion. It was the conclusion that I had the hardest time with. How was I supposed to close out a book with so many different voices without losing my own? So, although it takes a more serious perspective, it is definitely all me, and it is probably the part I think came out the best out of all my contributions to the book.

Write for the Fight came out better than I had hoped. I read it in its entirety when it was complete, and as a book it reads like a movie montage in my head. Some essays are so funny and imaginative, while others are more serious and heartfelt. It’s a great coffee table book, it’s also great for people who commute, or people with a massive case of ADD like me.

Visit my blog at www.traceyhansen.com and follow me on twitter @Tracey_Hansen

Tracey Hansen

Tracey just turned 30, we do not bring this up to her…ever.

With her best of friends scattered around the globe, Tracey spends her time in a dark corner in fetal position, sucking her thumb and crying while listening to Enya. Her campaign, ‘A bottle a day keeps the…who the fuck cares’, is catching on like wildfire in the alcoholic writing community.

She is afraid of flying, the dark, bees and Rosie O’Donnell…not necessarily in that order.

Her goals are to have a restraining order filed against her by a celebrity and world peace…in that order.

Tracey went to Catholic School which explains so much.

Her constant caffeine high allows her to write without thinking of the repercussions, so she has a tendency to offend people.

Luckily, she doesn’t give a shit.

NOT A PERFECT MOM 2013 and WRITE FOR THE FIGHT 2012, both brought to you courtesy of Booktrope Publishing.

Her first novel titled, WHY THE FUCK DOES WRITING THIS THING TAKE SO LONG, is due out when she stops procrastinating summer 2075.

-Word To Your Mother