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it's my birthday! we're trying something new!
Oct 18, 2025
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you've got a messy draft, now what?
three steps to tackling a big revision, in written and video format!
Feb 14
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how to tackle a big revision
dive into your messy draft at our February zoom workshop
Jan 29
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we're not doing another Mommy Wars
Aug 11, 2025
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"Caregiving has completely quieted the angsty existential questions I had in my 20s."
Jun 20, 2024
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how do we keep writing during times like this?
Feb 2, 2025
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how we keep writing in a time of distraction, overwhelm, and despair
Mar 30, 2025
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"you need less time to write a book than you think"
Jun 25, 2024
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it's Good Mother Myth day!
Jan 21, 2025
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"both parenting and writing require care and creativity"
SING ME A CIRCLE author Samina Najmi on the "rich matriarchal inheritance" of watching her mother and grandmother keep diaries, and learning to write in…
Jan 22
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grab your glue sticks and your big dreams
vision board party 2026 this Sunday, January 11th at 1pm est/10am pst
Jan 9
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"cultivate your comfort with fallow times"
FOXES FOR EVERYBODY author Catherine Pierce on taking up the challenge of essays as her kids left toddlerhood + your invitation to the Be Less Careful…
Jan 7
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"even magic takes good planning"
recording + highlights from the 2026 planning party, plus so many resources for creativity and joy in the year ahead
Jan 2
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planning party TODAY! join us! 🥳️
a zoom workshop for planning in your creative life with planning expert Sarah Hart-Unger, podcaster and author of Best Laid Plans
Dec 30, 2025
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🎉 you're invited! a Be Less Careful new year's planning party 🎉
join me and planner extraordinaire Sarah Hart-Unger on Tuesday, December 30th from 2-3pm EST on zoom
Dec 21, 2025
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the most important thing I've been trying to unlearn this year
come share what you've learned, plus help me pick a time for our 🔮 2026 VISION BOARD PARTY 🔮
Dec 16, 2025
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"I finally realized I needed to keep my sense of self alive if I wanted to be any good to anybody else"
Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Jenna Morton-Aiken, editors of PARENTING WHILE PhDing, on the non-writing hobbies that keep the spark alive and insisting on…
Dec 11, 2025
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how to get out of your own way
recording + slides from December workshop
Dec 10, 2025
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