How I Grew Writing in the Dark, Year Two Update

Part One of Two: Where I Started, What I've Done, What Did & Didn't Work ( & tomorrow, Part Two on the more philosophical "Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I've Learned Along the Way")

Hi. I’m Jeannine.

I’m not famous or a NYT bestseller or a social media influencer or a somebody of any kind.

Okay, I mean, everyone is somebody, but I’m just a totally regular somebody.

A writer who’s serious about writing, and a teacher who’s serious about teaching, who launched Writing in the Dark on Substack two years ago, and has watched it grow since then from zero to a creative community of 15K members. It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever created, I love it a lot, and I’m frankly stunned by what this place has become in just 24 months, simply through me doing what I love to do. In fact, this fall we launched an adjacent 9-month WITD: THE SCHOOL program that’s related to but separate from Writing in the Dark, and we’re about to announce registration for our first in-person offering, WITD: THE CAMP.

It’s changing my life.

And I wrote about all this at exactly this time last year, when WITD turned one—so today’s two-year review is a gently updated version of that one-year post, with som…