WITD's 12-Week Story Challenge Starts Next Wednesday!

“People want to hear a story.... That’s the way human beings organize their human knowledge – fairy tales, myths. All narration.” ~Toni Morrison

I’ll tell you the truth: I never realized it was possible to teach writing in a genuinely dynamic, interpersonal, intimate, and slightly wild (which is how I like things) way through a newsletter. I like eye contact and the electricity that moves through the air when human beings sit in a room together making worlds out of words!

But the thing is, I really feel that here with you all. It’s amazing and mind-boggling, but also true. I feel it, and I know many of you do, too. And as a recovering loner (former foster kid, expert at hiding), it feels like a miracle, the oxygen-rich atmosphere of this robust, unpredictable, rigorous and alert literary space that is also tender and even shy enough for creative spirits to wrestle with the lifelong task set to us by Mary Oliver, the task of paying attention long enough to patch “a few words together, don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest, but the doorway into thanks.”

A doorway indeed! One that right now leads straight into WIT…