Fledgling Writers Nest

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Fledgling’s newsletter is a space for earnest writing advice, something new to read, and monthly prompts to try at home. For less than $20 a month, paid subscribers:

• Gain access to our weekly generative writing event

• Receive musings, exclusive advice, and interviews with industry professionals in your inbox three times a month

• Participate in conversations about the writing life

• Weekly and monthly rituals to make a habit of creative writing

• Exclusive members-only discounts on all Independent Courses and in person/online workshops

Perks & Discounts for joining the writers nest

Lunch Break - Tuesdays on Zoom, 12-1 pm EST

Don’t know when to write? Making a habit out of creative writing and becoming a better writer necessitates ritual and consistency.

Our weekly writing hour is a midweek opportunity to turn your creative faucet on and exercise your writer’s mind. In this focused hour, we vow to close our other tabs, listen to an inspiration text, and write for 45 minutes either to the day’s prompt or toward a project of our choosing. It’s that simple!

Guided Writing Meditation - First week of every month

Receive a private Youtube link at the end of each month’s free newsletter. Like firing up a yoga video at home supports you in providing movement and self care on your own time, writing with Sammi during these 15 minute videos takes the guess work out of when, what, and for how long to write. Sammi films from a different outdoor location each month, offers a theme or question to meditate on for two minutes, then we write together (yes, Sammi on screen and you at home) for 12 minutes. Use these videos to maintain your writing/journaling practice and to tap into your inner world once a month.

Diaries - Mid-month

Each month Sammi offers a more personal account of how her writing journey is going to paid subscribers. Learn what it’s like to pitch big outlets, deal with rejection, search for an agent, and more through mini personal essays under 500 words.

Community Workshop - Third Sundays in the summer in Crown Heights, BK, 1-2:30 pm

A summer ritual, Community Workshops are an opportunity to check in as a writing group during our workshop off-season.

We begin each session with an open floor for anyone to read a page from something they read or wrote over the past month. Then, learn a little something and write to a prompt that speaks to the month’s theme. After, we share out and offer feedback in the comments for our fellow writers.

Whether there’s booze in your signature cocktail or not, community workshops are meant to be a fun and low-pressure environment to have fun, write some words, swap inspiration, and connect with likeminded, writerly ne’erdowells June-August.