The Kinds of Questions We Ask Ourselves

Right as the seasons change.

I’m teaching a zoom workshop on May 9 on why we write. More details here. It’s going to be a banger.

This workshop will be excellent prep for 1000 Words of Summer, which starts May 30 and runs through June 12. More about it here.

If you’re in Atlanta, I’ll be doing this extremely fun event on April 30 with Matthew Shaer, sponsored by A Capella Books, Grocery on Home, and the Origin Stories Podcast.

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Hi friends.

We spend our creative lives in search of guiding principles that are ever-changing depending on our personal circumstances.

As I mentioned when I last wrote you I’ve been generating and then discarding drafts of letters to you, or at least putting them on hold. I think I needed to write that last letter to clear out a lot of junk in my head. I’m seeing things more clearly now.

And then when I was in yoga the other day, relaxing at the end of class with my eyes closed, I remembered we were at a shift in seasons, which could explain a lot. Duh, I thought. (A thousand “duh” moments I have had at the end of a yoga class in my life.) When I got home I actually flipped through the pages of 1000 Words for the first time in a while, reading some of the letters contained within it to refresh myself on the thinking about these seasonal changes. The letters helped. They nudged me along the path of thinking about who I am as a writer. Questions emerged. Like these: