A Beauty Salon Writing Series: Beginning Saturday, March 2
Free drop-in writing hours for paid subscribers, for the next 3 weeks.
I do apologize for the last-minute invitation, but it is given in total sincerity - I’d like to hang out with you as I finish my book revisions, if you’d like to join me! The most generative writing experiences I’ve had have been in community with other writers, and I’ll be leaning on that community more in the coming weeks. My final book revisions are due - truly, actually - in just three weeks, before I begin the arduous process of getting my manuscript fact checked. Did you know non-fiction books don’t have to be fact checked before publication? And when they are, it’s often on the author’s dime? Yeah. I have a lot of work cut out for me in prepping a decade of investigative reporting into neat folders for my fact-checker to navigate, even after I finish the neat last steps of my manuscript’s line-edits.
To push me through these final farewells to the manuscript before I begin the process of reliving every fact I ever discovered for it, I request the presence of your friendly company. For an hour every Saturday until March 16th, I’ll be hosting Drop-In Writing Hours on Google Meet for paid subscribers.
You can ask me writing questions for the first 15 minutes - I’m happy to offer advice within that timeframe - and then you are welcome to join me in a silent co-working session for the remainder of the session. There’s no pressure to share or show your own work - we’ll just be body doubling each other as we push towards our own finish lines. These kinds of gatherings have always helped me in the past, and I know it will help me in the coming weeks. So I’d like to invite you in!
Here’s the login info (I’ll likely add folks in manually to mitigate bombers and weirdos). It is totally free to paid subscribers of this newsletter, and if you aren’t one, you can just Venmo me whatever you’d like in order to join at @Arabelle-Sicardi or on Paypal. If it’s a dollar, it’s a dollar! I’ll put anything I get into my little fund I’m putting towards my fact-checking invoice, which is, I will be transparent with you, many thousands of dollars. It is totally worth it, but I appreciate every measure of support put towards covering it.
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