The Slow Story Club

Going deeper, feeling more, writing better

Hello friends,

The Slow Story Club at The Mindful Writer is an element of the Slow Writing Movement that can help you bring more mindfulness to your words and your writing practice. Starting on the 1st September 2023, on the 1st of each month, I’ll be posting a craft discussion, a story reading and analysis, along with a writing prompt.

These will help you to:

• dig deeper to reveal the emotional truths at the heart of the stories you tell and discover who you are as a writer;

• really get to know the characters whose stories you are sharing and why they want to tell them through you;

• find ways to write stories that bring more love, compassion and unity to the world; and

• focus on the feelings you want your stories to have and how your prose can achieve that.

These will be available free to all subscribers of The Mindful Writer.

For paid subscribers there’s a little extra: some time before the end of the month, you can share the story you’ve written from the prompt for comment from me and the other writers in the club. You can also read and comment on the other stories shared.

I’m really excited to develop my Slow Writing Movement and to get started with this first part that can help us all to slow our story development down and make everything we create mean more. I really hope you’ll join in.

With love,

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