New dates for Writing Together
Looking forward to writing with you
Dear friends,
The summer – as much as we’ve had one here in the UK – is already drawing to a close.
I’m not quite sure where the weeks have gone since I last wrote to you. Now, the apples are falling from the trees and the roads around my house in North Yorkshire are thrumming with tractors and combine harvesters, as the corn and barley are gathered in.
Last night’s full moon was big and low and yellow. There are signs everywhere here that the year is turning once again.
I want to say thank you to you all for supporting me in this much-needed break. I’ve been working on my many writing projects and now I’m reorganising my study, ready for a new university semester. I hope that you too have found some time for your own restorative writing.
I’m brimming with ideas, which I can’t wait to share with you, beginning Friday 7 September 2024. In the meantime, here’s news of the next dates for our live Writing Together sessions, including a special Festival of Light at the winter solstice on Saturday 21 December 2024 ✨. This was such a beautiful session last year and I’m looking forward to celebrating with you once again as we move from 2024 to 2025.
If you’re not familiar with our Writing Together sessions, you can find out more about them below.
With love,
Sophie x
New dates for Writing Together
⭐️ Saturday 21 September 2024 - 4pm (UK time) - PLEASE NOTE RESCHEDULED DATE
⚡️ Sunday 13 October 2024 - 4pm (UK time)
🌙 Thursday 14 November 2024 - 7pm (UK time)
🕯✨ Saturday 21 December 2024 - 4pm (UK time)
Festival of Light ✨🕯
✨ Here’s a reminder of the changes I made to Restorative Writing earlier in the summer.
Restorative Writing is for everyone everywhere. When I began this community, I initially posted weekly. However, because of my own experience of the need to slow down and give our writing – and ourselves – space to breathe, I now send out new in-depth posts once per month.
All subscribers receive these monthly free posts, which include my Writing Invitations and links to further resources.
If you’d like to participate in this community through live writing sessions, you can buy the annual subscription at $55, which includes access to :
✨ Writing Together: Your invitation to a monthly paid subscriber-only live writing session on Zoom. Writing Together live workshop sessions are a very supportive space where we spend an hour writing and reflecting together in response to a theme, text or idea and then share our questions and reflections. The first part of the session is recorded so that you can join in later, if you can't make it in real time. The discussion part is not recorded in order to honour confidentiality.
✨ Restorative Writing Seasons: Seasons are lovingly researched and curated mini-courses with a focus on nurturing yourself and your writing and finding creative ways to rest deeply, all delivered to you through weekly short video ‘lessons’ and posts. They include audio tracks, writing experiments and links to further resources that you can work through at your own pace in the way that feels best for you. Your membership will give you access to two of these courses: Core Practices (which ran live in summer of 2024) and Creative Rest, which ran in summer 2023). You can take these courses in your own time as self-paced development or even organise to work through them as a personal writing retreat.
⚡️ My full archive of posts.
These include over fifty additional posts with inspiration, resources, and writing experiments, all with a holistic approach.💜 + When you buy a subscription, you’re also supporting me in continuing to make all my monthly posts and resources free to as many people as I can. 🙏
I believe that the world needs your creativity, your spark and your well-rested energy. I hope that Restorative Writing can be a source of that for all of us. Thank you.