Don’t feel guilty for focusing on your creative needs
Don’t feel guilty for focusing on your creative needs – your life may depend upon it My mother was raised a Calvinist, so I was taught that time taken for […]
Launch into a new writing year creatively
There’s a flat, yellow rock I swim out into the ocean to touch each day. It’s where I acknowledge what I have, give thanks … and beg favours of the […]
May Newsletter: You answered our questions – and we’ve come up with a new free service
You answered our questions – and we’ve come up with a new free service Last month we asked you to participate in our survey and to answer two questions. Well, […]
Learn the secrets to great stories at our Stow Story Weekend
Stories drive us. They’re what help us make meaning – and so, sense of our world. They help us make decisions about our own existence. Stories of one sort or […]
Hand-in-hand to great writing in 2018
There’s a paradox to writing: it is at once an intensely solitary activity, and at the same time is dependent on the good opinion of a vast community of readers. […]
August Newsletter: Words on water or immortal prose?
Trish and I have just spent six weeks slowly working our way down the Thames River in our narrowboat Patience. We’re on the Grand Union Canal now, moored up in […]
How we can help you, community successes, writing challenge results – and the new challenge
It’s what we hear most often from people who seek our help: they need to develop a daily habit of writing, and they want our support and mentoring in doing […]
