Back to Writing Coaching after 4-Year Pandemic-Induced In-House Hiatus
The last quarterly newsletter I sent was dated May 1, 2020. I had just launched a lovely new website to house my writing when everything went on PAUSE.
I’ve spent the past three years partnering with universities and nonprofits in-house. While I plan to continue in that vein, I’ve missed working 1:1 with writers. So I’m hitting RESUME on my coaching practice, re-opening to clients who have worked with me previously.
If we’ve worked together in the past and you’re interested in a short-term coaching boost for a month or three, please visit this page for more. I’ll only be taking on a small handful of clients at a time so that I can give everyone my all.
Lastly, a public service announcement: The deadline for applications for 2025 Ragdale residencies is June 30, 2024. Special fellowships are available, so do scan the website closely. Time at Ragdale has allowed me to keep my writing projects moving through a pandemic, parenthood, and working full-time. It’s the only place, quite literally, where I make significant strides. I love to share a good thing, so I hope you’ll consider applying if this is something you hunger for. The application isn’t arduous.
And if you have a moment, do write back and let me know how you – and your writing – are. As always, I am cheering you on!
With love from cicada country,
Deborah
PS. In the past few years, I quit Twitter (X, whatever) and joined the Instagram party. Follow me on Insta and I’ll follow back.
WHAT I’M READING:
Fiction
Daphne Uviller, This Was Not the Plan (so smart & witty)
Creative Nonfiction
Gayle Brandeis, Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss (achingly gorgeous)
Nonfiction
Alissa Quart, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Alua Arthur, Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End
Jeff Rosen, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography
Books on Craft
Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
Sandra Scofield, The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer
PODCASTS I’M LISTENING TO:
Write-Minded (thank you as ever, She Writes Sister Brooke Warner)
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Reading a fresh essay from the stage at Louder Than a Mom‘s 10th Anniversary show (last Wednesday!)
Introducing: Today in Teddy. This mushball is the new family dog. He lives with my 83-year-old father (“fuck it, I’m getting a Great Pyrenees”), but we have joint custody.
Today in lake, heart edition. This was the photo I posted with the May 1, 2020 blast. Resonant as ever. <3 <3 <3
www.girlmeetsvoice.com (coaching site)
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