Meets: Jan 13-Mar 26, 2026
Tuesdays and Thursday mornings, 8-9a CT / 9-10a ET
Location: Zoom
Cost: $165 / Returning Collective participants pay 50%.
Do you have a hard time sticking to a writing schedule?
The Writing Collective offers protected writing time twice a week. At the top of the hour, I’ll briefly share words of wisdom and advice, optional prompts, and good creative energy, then we’ll all write with cameras off or on. At the end of the hour, we briefly check in and say goodbye.
All you have to do is show up.
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“I struggle to prioritize my writing, but when I commit to a time and place to show up with other writers, I do it! Even better, two hours a week of no-fail writing time leads to more writing because I have some momentum going. It might seem silly to write with others over Zoom, but it has gotten me farther and deeper into a work of fiction than I’ve ever been able to achieve on my own. And if some weeks I only write for two hours, well, that is two hours I wouldn’t have written otherwise.”
Several times a week, I drive to a yoga studio to spend an hour exercising with dozens of other humans. At the end, sweating and satisfied, we all lie quietly on our mats. Side by side.
Sure, I could cheaply and easily roll out my mat at home instead. But I don’t.
Writing is actually a very active pursuit. It can be stimulating and exhausting, as you know. But it doesn’t always feel that way when it happens (or doesn’t happen) without movement or witness.
The Writing Collective is about cultivating individual practice and progress using the time-tested creative tools of inspiration, accountability, and community.
Each of our Writing Collective sessions will:
Open with a brief reading to settle in.
Offer a prompt to guide your writing, productivity advice, and/or creative inspiration.
Hold 50 minutes of quiet time to write together.
Close with a prompt to ease your way back to the work next time.
Include a shared tracking spreadsheet for logging your progress (optional).
Accountability: Attend 20 out of 24 sessions to receive free access to the first three chapters of our online course Write Your Novel (normally $199). These 3 chapters are designed for writers of all genres, not just novelists.
Guest writers will occasionally sub in to offer fresh perspectives.
Like yoga, writing is a practice. We can strengthen our practice together in community. Also like yoga, all you need to do is show up.
Think of the Writing Collective as creative church: Your only responsibility is show up, listen, and stay in your seat.
“The bits of writing advice you give us at the beginning of a session always land perfectly for me. And I like when you ask someone how it’s going at the end. Every time I hear people who are writers talk about writing, I feel renewed in my own desire to get what I think down on paper.”