Let's write together today

Your link to join the In Writing Creative Hour.

This week I’ve been editing with the use of paper, scissors and masking tape, which felt like chaos while it was happening, but definitely helped.

If you’re one of those who has been coming along to the In Writing Creative Hours recently, I’m really grateful to you. I notice that these get-togethers give me a bit of strength, somehow – it feels like being part of a writers’ union, just knowing that we’re all doing similar hard work and facing very similar challenges. If you haven’t come along yet, I hope you might give it a try today, and sit alongside us on Google Meet while you work on your own writing project. I do not plan to spend this session cutting paper apart and sticking it back together in a different order, although you never know.

I’ll be online from 5pm UK time today (Sunday 24th September) – there’s a timezone converter here for those who aren’t in the UK (just put your own location into the second section and it will let you know what time to show up).

If you haven’t attended a Creative Hour before, it’s a get-together for paying subscribers online. We say hello and have a brief chat, then write together in companionable silence for fifty minutes. It’s a small act of writerly solidarity, an opportunity to get to know other writers, and a lovely, uplifting way to end the week.

If you’re planning to join us, let me know in the comments below, if you like.

The schedule:

5pm GMT (that’s UK time): Click the link below to open Google Meet.

I’d love you to switch your camera on for the first few minutes while we settle in, and keep it on throughout the hour if you can bear it (it adds to the feeling that we’re all working side by side). As for microphones, we’ll follow a general rule of staying on mute, but unmuting when we want to speak. Please chime in during the chats at the beginning and end – I’d love to hear from you.

5.05-ish: Writing time. If you’re running late, you’re welcome to slip in whenever, but don’t be offended if we don’t say hello. As for what to write – it’s totally up to you. Pick up a project that you’ve been neglecting, start something new, or if you’re stuck for inspiration, do some journalling or write a letter.

5.55-ish: We’ll return to wrap up the hour and reflect on how it went.

6pm: Say goodbye, and feel pleased with yourself for the rest of the day.

The link: