I met recently with a writer I've been working with for some time. He's been receiving feedback from our writing group for months. I know his story well — it's good. He's now working with a professional editor who loves the book and has given him a clear blueprint to take his draft to a polished ...

A writer in our group — someone who has published two books — sat quietly after we'd responded to a piece she'd shared. Then she said something I haven't forgotten. She said she felt seen. Not just her writing — her. She said it was only the second time she'd experienced that feeling around her w...

In one of my writing workshops this week, a writer did something that stopped me. She was working on a scene — a character under pressure, falling apart quietly. And instead of reaching for something invented, she reached for something real. A moment from her own week. The stress she'd been carry...

Welcome to this month's edition of the Write Things Newsletter. We live in a world that constantly invites us to look outward. To study what's working for other writers. To follow the frameworks, absorb the rules, measure our instincts against someone else's standard. And there's value in that — ...

Hello writers, Welcome to the newest edition of the Write Things Newsletter! Beginning this month, you’ll receive one content-rich newsletter designed to support your writing practice for the month ahead. Many writers need space and time to find their words — and their momentum. My hope is that t...