Day 15: Write in the company of others

30 days of writing with pleasure

Dear fellow writer,

Welcome to Day 15 of your 30-day Show Up and Write with pleasure challenge!

Your challenge today is to write in the company of other writers. You can take this challenge literally and write alongside other writers in a café, or you can interpret it metaphorically and write down the names of writers in whose physical or spiritual presence you would like to do some writing. Invite them into your writing space and feel inspired by their example.

If you want to time your writing today, here’s a fun timer to try!

Thanks for showing up to write, and I’ll see you tomorrow. 

Ngā mihi mahana (warm greetings),

Helen

Spread the joy! Please encourage your friends, colleagues, and students to join me in the WriteSPACE, a vibrant, low-cost writing community with members in 30+ countries. As a WriteSPACE member, you’ll get premium access to resources, workshops, and tools designed to help you hone your wordcraft, sharpen your style, and coax your writing gently but firmly out the door.

Books on writing by Helen Sword

Writing with Pleasure
Princeton University Press, 2023

Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
Harvard University Press, 2017

Stylish Academic Writing
Harvard University Press, 2012

The Writer’s Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose
University of Chicago Press, 2016