Day 30: Keep writing with pleasure!

30 days of writing with pleasure

Dear fellow writer,

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

I’m delighted that you’ve made it all this way! Today, your challenge is to prepare yourself to keep writing with pleasure day after day beyond these 30 days.

Here are some resources that can help:

• Writing with Pleasure - Writing should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. This joyful book from Princeton University Press empowers academic and professional writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones.

• The Pleasure Catalyst (Feb 3 - Mar 14, 2024) - Rediscover the joys of writing with this fabulous 6-week course. By casting light into even the most shadowy corners of your writing practice, you’ll develop strategies bringing passion and pleasure to everything you write. The Pleasure Catalyst starts this weekend - enroll now!

• The WriteSPACE - You’ll find a treasure trove of colorful, craft-focused writing resources — including this playful Green Apple timer — in the members-only WriteSPACE Library. Join now to try free for 30 days.

Thanks for showing up to write, and I hope to see you again soon.

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