Writing at home
Virtual retreat next week and a class this weekend, oh my!
This Sunday, I’m teaching a 1-day seminar, Against Heroism, on subverting or re-imagining the classical hero’s journey in your writing. You can sign up here (and get your discount code if you’re a paid subscriber here). This Sunday seminar will be a casual, generative space to discuss the influence of this tradition on your writing (fiction or nonfiction), write together, connect, and ask questions.
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Below is the schedule for our first ever virtual writing retreat, which will be held next week! Our Writing Group has been steadily growing since we started up in January, and it’s been great fun getting to know all of you and your writing. Next week, Writing Group subscribers will have a chance to meet live on Zoom and spend some dedicated time writing at home, together. For those of us who find it hard to get away to residencies and retreats for days or weeks at a time, whatever the reason, this will be a chance to dedicate a full week (or as much of the week as you can manage) to your writing. I’ll be working alongside you, too, on my next book!
There will be online gatherings, threads, prompts, office hours, and an open studio gathering. The full schedule, and links to all Zooms, are below the paywall.
If you want to join us, be sure to upgrade to Writing Group subscriber— that’s the founding-level tier, not a regular paid subscription. Normally, this program is $150, but this week only, in advance of the retreat, it’s just $100. Writing Group subscribers also have weekly chats and monthly craft essays, and we’ll have another retreat in the fall.
To get us ready for next week, I’d love to hear from all of you this week about the challenges you face writing at home— whether it’s distractions caused by care work or paid work, uncomfortable or unwelcoming writing spaces, the pain of the world seeping into your consciousness, general burnout, etc etc. Let’s talk, too, about how you might make space and/or peace with these forces next week, as you set aside some time to write.