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14/01/2025

If you are affected by the LA wildfires and need a space to process, decompress, and check in with yourself, we are offering free writing sessions through our online community, The Practice. Feel free to direct message us for details ❤️.

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08/01/2025

“I write, erase, rewrite,
erase again, and then
a poppy blooms.”

WRITING PROMPT: when was the last time you had no words? the last time saying something felt futile, unjust, unimportant. Write about that moment.

03/01/2025

Walk into the center of everything. Leave nothing in your wake.

If you’d like to move into the new year with a renewed commitment to your writing life, registration for The Practice is open. January is filled to the edges with opportunities. Our first writing circle of the year is tomorrow morning and this month we have a craft workshop led by ✨ link in bio - see you there xo

31/12/2024

A few quiet moments from our Portugal Retreat to close the year. A note that we are grateful for what we have made and holding true for what will be. Taking this time to be still and to hold tight what matters most. And tomorrow, we get back to the work.

If you’d like to start 2025 by committing to your writing life, join us in Mexico. There is one spot left and a few hours left in 2024 for tax write offs! Who’s going to grab it?

28/12/2024

I know what I am.

16/12/2024

Writing Prompt ✨

“….note the infinite lightness of what is true right now.”

Write down three things that are true about your story. Write down three questions that your story seeks to answer. Write down three things that are keeping you from writing it. Write down what would happen if you did.

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13/12/2024

Warmth. We are channeling this: the warmth of the heart and the warmth on our skin. The Mexico Retreat is in early February (6-10), arriving just at the right moment when the buzz of the holidays has faded and winter is moving at its glacial pace. Saying “yes” is a seed for the new year — a planting and a promise of what we are reaching toward next year. And when it comes with its relief and its tacos, we will go open-hearted and open-minded to be washed and warmed by the sea and feel ourselves again

This is a very small and intimate group that will center around discussing our work and asking the questions that can unlock the way we move through and think about our writing. We will spend our time discussing our work and developing new ways of getting into the writing: how to start and how to sustain. If you are a new writer, this is for you. If you are well-seasoned, this is for you.

So, if the idea of absconding to a sandy beach in midwinter — to read poems, stretch under palm trees, dance around bonfires, feast on fresh fruit, talk about the things we don’t say out loud, make space, scream, and simply be — if all of that sounds like a really good idea, then maybe one of these last rooms is for you.

There are two single rooms left, and we are here to help make this happen for you. We still have payment plans available, and if you’d like to come with a friend and share the bed, reach out for special rates.

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Second image from our Nicaragua retreat
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11/12/2024

Perhaps this is what they mean when they say once in a lifetime. Nikki Giovanni was exactly that — the rarest and rawest of talent and true blue. The world is a little less with this loss but we are all a little better off for what she’s left behind. ✨

06/12/2024

I haven’t written a short story in some time, but I woke in the middle of the night with an idea and wrote the first draft of a new story—though it has no ending. When I was in grad school, Denis Johnson came and led our MFA workshop for a semester. It was one of those “meet your idol and they become human” experiences. I wrote my best stories near him.

Denis was such a formidable force on the page. Jesus’ Son was a collection that shaped my consciousness as a short story writer. But in person, he was gentle and odd in the best way. He said things that hardly made sense at the time but have stuck with me in the years since. He was wise and brutally honest, and we were all better writers because of him.

When he passed, I sat in my car and cried on the side of the freeway in LA.

The story I’m writing now reaches toward (if I’m lucky) moments that remind me of Jesus’ Son, so I’m rereading the collection. His language is sharp and clean—an axe mid-swing. You hold your breath.

He once told me that I wouldn’t find the endings to some of my stories until five years later, while sitting in a bar, when some guy would accidentally tell me exactly how they end.

Cheers, DJ. We miss you. Xo,

02/12/2024

There is something ritualistic of December. How the days seem to quietly fold in on themselves before they are ready—the dark, an old friend for the season. We make busy, we make food, we draw the windows, we look at the stars, we invite others in.

Write about the rituals of your life, particularly those of this dark season. What if we thought of darkness as a friend—someone who has come to tell us it’s alright to take a breath, a beat? To be less productive, more reflective; less about movement, more about rest.

If you’d like, start with the line “This darkness is..”

Here’s a snippet from :

This darkness / a cup of black coffee before the sun is up / as bitter and needed as a man I once loved who could not return it in a currency that I could use / it is questions with no end and questions with no answers / darkness like an invitation and darkness like a reminder that what we bury is not ever really gone / root rot and tulip bulbs / and fig trees gone bare and now the coffee gone cold / bare feet in a house neither of us own / but this darkness holds us up like old bones / a promise that what has come will go

30/11/2024

We grow into the only kind of women we know how to be— excerpts from , The Blue Years.

25/11/2024

Writing Prompt: The Chemistry of a Kiss ✨

Kissing is more than just a gesture—it’s a chemical process and a form of deep communication. When we kiss, our bodies flood with dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin, creating memories that can stay with us forever. Write about a kiss that has or has not happened—one so powerful that it lingers in the mind, for better or worse. How does this kiss define or change a character’s trajectory?

If you’re inspired to write a poem, immerse us in the physicality of the kiss. What can you compare it to? What metaphor captures its essence? And what if you never even say the word “kiss” at all? Drop us into the moment with sensory details and emotional depth.

Images found in the creative basement of the Internet, send sources if you know them ✨

20/11/2024

WRITING PROMPT ✨

“I am in the world but I still want the world.”

Read this poem and absorb the layered invitation and metaphor: as the sunflower and as the writer, how we move between meanings. Also consider how the natural world here is used as a mirror for the human experience.

Write your own version of this piece. What might your sunflower be? What around you feels like a representation of who you are in the world. An animal? A plant? A tree? A mountain? Use this poem as inspiration or borrow the opening line as jumping off point, and include in your title a nod to the original writer by stating “after Jenny George.”

Write ✨

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13/11/2024

Didion on place: marked by a near-reverence for capturing place as something raw and alive. Whatever she’s excavating, she doesn’t just use the world as a backdrop or echo; instead, it’s the lens through which she questions and understands herself. One can only reach for it.

We are re-reading her essay, On Morality, for this weekends writing circle in The Practice. Join us (link in bi-oh.) ☀️ And patiently waiting for our copy of Didion and Babitz by to arrive in the mail.

11/11/2024

Postcards from the trip you haven’t taken yet. The Mexico Writer’s Retreat, February 6-10, at , is a 4-night immersive experience designed to call forth your inner knowing, excavate your narrative through line, and remind you how good it feels to write.

If you’re looking for an invitation to evolve your writing practice, this is it. With leaders and , you will be guided, held, and surprised by what lies in wait inside of you. Let’s go write, connect, and swim in the sea at sunrise.
Link in bio for full details and room reservations—DM us with any questions you might have. ☀️

09/11/2024

The unifying theme is you.

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