For writers between seasons.

There are stretches where writing doesn’t arrive the way it used to.

Usually, something else has shifted first. Your life changes and the way you reach language changes with it.

It’s easy to treat that as a problem to solve and assume you simply need more discipline, structure, or a better system to find your words again but writing doesn’t always respond to correction. Sometimes nothing is wrong with your relationship to it. You just need a way back without forcing the process or expecting to be who you were before you went through something that rewired things.

I’ve been trying to find my way through that too after life broke my writing rhythm open and altered it forever.

That’s what I was writing toward in Write What’s Still Here: Prompts for Writers Between Seasons.

If writing has felt farther away than usual or harder to return to, this is for that in-between space.

From one writer between seasons to another,

-Melissa