Finding your voice is easy (accepting how it sounds is the hard part) [summer journaling club week 4]

The most confronting - but actually useful - writing advice you might ever receive

Link to summer journaling club examples (week 3)

Plus re-cap

Summer journaling club week 3 examples

For paid subs

"Without discipline talent is useless" - and other crappy writers' advice you can happily dispense with [summer journaling Club week 3]

Commitment not discipline.

If it makes you freeze, it's not a prompt [summer journaling club week 2]

Authentic expression over perfection

Summer Journaling Club week 2 [examples]

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Write what you observe, not what you know [summer journaling club week 1]

Look to see | See to Know | Know to Understand

PSA: The solution to cringey writing is not to stop writing. [summer journaling club intro]

Join my summer journaling club.... and here's a link to buy my zines!

What do you even know you're not capable of because you haven't tried yet?

A series of writing prompts via a collaborative zine to help you detox from social media, artificiality and the pursuit of perfection.

The heart of the building (& some weekend writing prompts)

This has unexpectedly turned into an ode to my home and my neighbours?

"Art won't set you free or pay your bills but I hope you find a way to make art anyway."

A quote turned call-to-(zine)-chain-mail-action

Nothing but gratitude (and a few crucial tips for writers).

Skim read to get to the writer's tips. Fyi, this post is probably best viewed online - I apologise for crushing your inbox with too many pics.

Open Mic at Eva bar & she's wearing my jeans

An e-zine

News

If photos could speak

The last two months in pictures and story-snapshots... [PLUS UPDATE ON FUNDS]

Gaza

(Almost) Four tents in 24 hours!

An update on the Aotearoa 2 Gaza Tent drive

Gaza

Update after an hour - half way already! (plus the link, again, because i'm useless)

The earlier email didn't include a clickable link, doh.

Gaza

Asking for help - please read asap! And thank you x

Aotearoa 2 Gaza Tent Drive

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E te Māreikura, moe mai rā

'She fought for what she didn't have and wanted at a time when the world was hostile to everything Māori.'

Essays

You can take te reo Māori out of our books, but you can't take it out of our mouths.

[For Als]

Tips & Inspiration

Moving to Ghost - *some* of your technical questions answered

This is not a comprehensive post and will only be of interest to fellow bloggers. Normal newsletters will resume shortly...

Essays

What binds us together is stronger than what is trying to drag us apart

Waiho te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa (on the 5th anniversary of the Covid-19 lockdowns).

Slowing the Sun

Slowing The Sun

A 2-min video 'splainer

Is it time you started a newsletter?

Unconventional tips that might actually be useful

Essays

What are the chances the language you're looking for is already inside you?

An essay in search of (climate change) meaning