🧵 Thursday Thread: “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.”—Rumi
Today I want YOU: Links to your Substack & other writing, recipes for your famous rhubarb pie (if only we could post pics in comments!), all your best stuff, right here, please!
Hello!
If you registered for The Feeling of What Happens, we can’t wait to see you so tonight, and the Zoom link will hit your email box later this morning!
Also, here’s how generosity breeds generosity—a phenomenon we’ve seen from the start at WITD: a participant who registered weeks ago and paid in full cannot attend, and messaged last night to offer her seat as a full scholarship to another WITD writer.
We’re thrilled to pass this along, so please email writing@writinginthedark.org if you can use it (class is TONIGHT, 5:30-8:30 CT and you need nothing to prepare, only your own excitement to learn about advanced techniques for writing that stirs emotion). No explanation of need necessary, it’s an honor system so please only use the scholarship if you have financial need. We trust you and appreciate your trust in return.
As for this week’s Thursday Thread! Well, at our incredible Live Salon open mic reading last week, listening to those INCREDIBLE readings, some of you said it would be awfully nice if we knew where to follow each other and each other’s work here and also outside of Substack—and
and I agree! Yes! We want that too. It’s part of the vision for the gorgeous creative community we’re building here.And in this spirit, we’ll be soon launching a monthly classifieds concept here at Writing in the Dark, where paid members can find people to join up with for reading/writing groups (where you can use the WITD workshop methodology to advance your longer manuscripts, like Amy Stonestrom did to land her piece in the NYT last week, which you can read about here), or where you can connect with people who offer editing or design services or who are interested in birding or gardening or anything else under the sun. We can’t wait.
In the meantime, right here and now today, we want to kick off by hearing what you have going on that we should know about.
What to share?
Any links to and/or titles of published work & where we can read it/buy it
Links to your own Substacks and maybe a little more description than we’d find on in the short taglines!
Links to website(s) if you have one
Other cool stuff we might want to know about you that isn’t on the internet, like that rhubarb pie recipe you’re famous for
Whatever else you can think of!
We just want to hear your own voices celebrating the Universe inside of you
Please don’t be shy—as long as it’s not mean or harmful, we want to celebrate your stuff
Please give your comment a HEADING in ALL CAPS saying what it is you are sharing (e.g., BOOK LINK, ESSAY LINK, LINK TO MY SUBSTACK, RHUBARB PIE RECIPE, STORY ABOUT MY GRANDMA, etc.).
Also, feel free to share more than one thing, but in the name of easier scrolling and finding, consider dividing your shares into two or more comments if the things you are sharing are in wildly different categories (i.e., I probably wouldn’t put my memoir and my pie in the same comment, but, then again, who knows, we’re building this ship as we sail it).
Also, a word about celebrating ourselves and sharing our gifts: Brene Brown says joy is the most vulnerable emotion we can have, because the more joy we allow ourselves, the scarier it is to recognize how much we have to lose, and how little control we have over our lives.
It takes courage to allow for joy, and to celebrate the beauty of our lives. But as with all other scary things, it gets easier with practice. So, again, don’t be shy!
Love,
Jeannine
PS Threads/comments are for paid members; you can upgrade/manage your membership here any time. Thank you so much for reading Writing in the Dark!