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A writer I worked with some time ago came to a workshop series writing fiction. For three weeks she brought imaginative, visual, deeply engaging work — the kind of writing that pulls you in and holds you there. Then, in the final session, something else showed up. A personal story that had appare...

Jul 09, 2026

On Discovering Your Story

Last week, during one of our coaching calls in the Write Things Community, we did something a little different. Many writers are working on the first draft of their manuscripts, so we spent the session exploring their endings through a series of reflective prompts. Rather than trying to think o...

Jul 06, 2026

On Coming Back

I want to tell you about a writer I've known for some time. She's talented. Thoughtful. The kind of writer whose work stays with you. And for a stretch, life pulled her away from the page. Not dramatically — just the way life does sometimes. Other things needed her attention. The writing became s...

Jun 25, 2026

On What We Can't See in Our Writing

We're wrapping up another round of Enhance Your Storytelling, and this time, we approached the material a little differently. Instead of starting with technique — here's how to build tension, here's how to plant a detail — we started as readers. Before learning to write these moments, writers spe...

Jun 18, 2026

On Growth & Resistance

When writers first join the Write Things Community, they arrive with all the things you'd expect. Uncertainty about their writing. Nervousness about sharing it. A quiet fear that what they've created isn't good enough — or that they aren't good enough. They come in carefully, testing the water. W...

Jun 11, 2026

On the Importance of Permission

There's something worth marking this month. The founding members of the Write Things Collective are closing out their first year — a full year of showing up, of putting words on the page, of doing the quiet, unglamorous work that writing actually requires. The change I've witnessed has been genui...

Jun 04, 2026

On the Productive Lie

Last week in our coaching call, we spent time touching base with something fundamental — why we write. What our writing allows us to say. The truths we get to explore. The permissions we give ourselves when we sit down at the page. At the end of the session, writers wrote letters to themselves. R...

May 28, 2026

On the Voice That Says You're Not Ready

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 ...

May 21, 2026

On Being Seen

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...

May 14, 2026

On Getting Back on the Horse

There's a particular feeling that every writer knows. You sit down to write and nothing comes. Or you don't sit down at all. You find something else to do — something easier, something with a clearer outcome. The dishes. Your email. Anything but the page. It's not laziness. It's not a lack of dis...

May 07, 2026

On the Right to Write

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...

Apr 30, 2026

Write Things: On What Only You Know

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 — ...

Apr 02, 2026

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