Writing workouts and Sponsored Write for Macmillan Cancer Support – at the Writers’ Gym this week
I am enormously grateful to everyone who reached out to me, and to others they know, on last week’s horrible anniversary. Every email, comment or text message, every post ‘like’, every scribbling-out of a swastika with a black sharpie (all actions I happen to know Writers’ Gym members and friends have chosen to show up with), thank you. Whatever level of connection feels right to you, please know it matters. It connects.
More thanks still to all of you in my writing community who are writing for, and sponsoring the writers for, Green Ink Sponsored Write 2024. I’ve been running events for Macmillan Cancer Support since 2009 and what’s now the Sponsored Write evolved from a basic idea that is the essence of creative confidence: I asked myself how what I loved doing could be something that helped the charity I supported – not simply in the publishing but in the creating? Macmillan Cancer Support are all about quality of life for everyone affected by cancer. That’s why the writers are sponsored not for their word-count but for their time. To read a world-exclusive new writing anthology, with any donation no matter how big all small, please help us help Macmillan Cancer Support right here. The digital anthology will be written on 19 October, edited on 20 October and in the inbox of everyone who donates on 21 October – that’s 48 hours from creation to publication.
Before that, though, come and see us for a writing workout or personal training session this week…
The Writing Room | 11-1pm Monday 14 October
FREE every Monday for everyone on my mailing list (if you’re reading this, that’s you!). Time and space to think and write with like-minded people. No expectations, no readings, just an open chat box and unmuting for ten minutes’ (totally optional) chat together at the end. Click here.
Riverscribes: Creative Writing | 7-8.30pm Tuesday 15 October
A lively and supportive creative writing forum where you are invited to share, discuss and develop your work. Whether you come for one session or every session, you’re guaranteed to build your knowledge, deepen your confidence and increase your enjoyment in your creative writing. Click here
Coffee & Creativity | 1-2.30pm Wednesday 16 October
Quality writing time and quality company! Grab a coffee and have a mid-week chat, a write and then another chat with your fellow creatives. Free for Writers’ Gym members: type your discount code where indicated. Click here.
InkCouragement: Creative Confidence Workout | 12-1pm Thursday 17 October
Boost your confidence and your word-count with a lunch-hour writing workout. Whatever your creative and technical writing life needs, you’ll come away from this writing workout with practical steps to turn your dreams into goals and goals into realisable habits. Free for Writers’ Gym members: type your discount code where indicated. Click here
Writing Room EXTRA | 11am-1pm Friday 18 October
Members only: please check your Voxer messages for this link.