Community Love Note Archive

Members Sharing What WITD Means To Them

Emily Levin: When I stumbled on Writing In The Dark on Substack, it felt like I was coming home.

Diana Strinati Baur: Incredibly beautiful, smart, ethereal, intelligent, logical, all the things … I joined and started with Story Challenge, which brought me back to my writing and brought me to another level.

Peg Conway: What I love about Writing in the Dark is how it combines a warm encouraging vibe with a serious, disciplined approach to writing.

Monika Kosmakova: Jeannine is a nurturing teacher and so invested in our growth. She encourages us to play, to take creative risks, to bring our whole humanity and life experience to the page.

Steve Salinda: Jeannine’s writings were speaking to my soul from day one. I wanted her to be my mentor.

Lisa Baird: When I log into my inbox to peruse my unopened mail, the Writing in the Dark newsletter is the first thing I must read.

Laure Jouteau: Writing in the Dark for me has been really the opening door to my creativity, to finding a community of supportive and enthusiastic and deep people. The exercises crafted by Jeannine are deep and fun at the same time.

Vanessa Foster: It’s not every day that we get to have a relationship with a writer of this caliber. When I read The Part That Burns in 2022 … I just felt connected.

Christine Beck: What is remarkable are those remarkable leaps into the unknown. As I read Jeannine’s work and her comments on the work of others, I say ah, of course, I knew that’s where we would land, but, of course, I didn’t know.