What is the In Writing Creative Hour?
What is the In Writing Creative Hour?
What to expect from our community writing hours, held regularly on Google Meet.
Most of what I do with In Writing – the podcast, the newsletter, the TikTok tips – is available to anyone who wants it, for free. Those who take out a paying subscription enable me to keep making that work, and they also get an exclusive bonus: access to our regular community Creative Hours.
The Creative Hour is a one-hour get-together on Google Meet, usually held on a Sunday, a couple of times a month (the precise dates are announced ahead of time in the newsletter).
We say hello and have a brief chat, then write together in companionable silence for fifty minutes – as though we’re at the library. Then we reconvene at the end to reflect on how it went. It’s a small act of writerly solidarity, an opportunity to get to know other writers, and a lovely way to end the week.
What I particularly love is putting faces to the names of those who subscribe to In Writing, and chatting about the projects you’re working on. People bring all kinds of work to the Creative Hour: novels-in-progress, articles, short stories, songs, comics, poems, memoirs and more. I find the scheduled structure and the team spirit of it hugely helpful in making progress on my own projects.
If you’d like to join sometime, all you have to do is upgrade to a paying subscription and look out for updates in your inbox about Creative Hours coming up. Hope to see you there.