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Stop Collecting Drafts. Start Building a Writing Life.
A free live workshop for people who want to write and publish the true stories of their lives.
Learn the system that helps personal nonfiction writers move their work from idea → finished piece → submission → published work.
You have stories you want to tell.
Maybe they're still ideas—stories you keep thinking I really need to write that someday.
Or maybe you've tried to write them and have enough half-finished work by now that you've started asking yourself some uncomfortable questions:
Why can't I seem to finish anything?
Am I just not disciplined enough?
Are my stories actually interesting?
Am I really a writer?
What if the problem isn't you?
What if you've simply never been given a reliable system for turning all those ideas and drafts into finished work?
Because writing a great sentence is one skill.
Building a writing life is another.
And that's what we're going to work on together.
In this free live workshop, you'll learn:
Why talented writers can spend years trying, but not finishing
We'll look at what's actually happening when you have plenty of ideas and plenty of desire—but frustratingly little finished work to show for it.
The system that moves a story toward done
I'll show you how to create structure around your creative life so your work can move from:
IDEA → FINISHED PIECE → SUBMISSION → PUBLISHED WORK
instead of getting stuck somewhere along the way.
How to keep writing when life doesn't cooperate
Because "I'll get serious about my writing when things calm down" sounds perfectly reasonable.
There's just one problem:
They never do.
You'll learn how writers build a practice that can survive busy weeks, interruptions, self-doubt, rejection, and all the other things that are part of an actual writing life.
How to start building a body of work
The goal isn't simply to write more.
It's to finish things.
Send them out.
Reach readers.
And over time, you can look back and see something very different from what you see today:
Essays you've finished. Work you've submitted. Stories you've published. And real confidence that you know how to keep going.
Meet Your Guide
Hi, I'm Paulette.
I have more than 100 published pieces in publications including The New York Times, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Yoga Journal.
I've written multiple viral essays that reached more than a million readers each.
But one of the most important things I've learned over the course of my writing career is this:
The writers who finish and publish their work aren't necessarily more talented or more disciplined.
They have a plan of what to work on next.
They know how to keep a piece moving when they get stuck.
They have a process for getting their work ready and sending it out.
And when life knocks them out of their writing practice—as life inevitably does—they have a way back in.
In other words:
They have a writing life ecosystem.
I've spent years studying and building systems for a writer's life, both for myself and for the writers I work with.
And in this workshop, I'm going to show you how to build yours.
WITH PERSONAL ESSAYS IN:
This workshop is for you if...
You write—or want to write—personal essays, memoir, or other true stories.
You have ideas you genuinely care about but struggle to turn them into finished work.
You have essays, memoir chapters, or story ideas you've been meaning to finish for months—or even years.
You keep promising yourself you're going to get more serious about your writing.
You'd love to submit your work for publication, but aren't consistently getting to the submission stage.
Or maybe you simply want to finally feel comfortable saying:
"I'm a writer."
You don't need to wait for "someday" to become a writer whose work gets read.
Come spend this workshop with me, and I'll show you how to start building the system that gets your stories out of your head, out of your computer, and into the world.
Free • Live Online • Every Week
Can't wait to see you there.