Plan Your Journey
Writing roadmaps, birthday bundles, stylish savings, and Substack for Scholars
Dear fellow writer,
The WriteSPACE Journey Planner is here — and it’s a game changer!
I’m so excited about this powerful new resource that I’m now making the Journey Planner available to all paying WriteSPACE members, not just to my annual membership as previously announced.
Here’s how it works:
If you’re already a member, you can fill out our 20-minute Journey Planner Survey any time in your WriteSPACE or WS Studio membership area. You’ll be prompted to reflect on your reasons for joining the WriteSPACE, your writing joys and frustrations, and your hopes and dreams as a writer; plus, I’ll invite you to undertake two short diagnostic exercises to help me better understand the nuances of your own unique profile.
Within a few weeks after receiving your completed survey, I’ll send you:
A detailed Journey Planner reporting on your survey results and offering specific recommendations for navigating your route through the WriteSPACE.
A personalized Writing Roadmap that you can print out and display in your writing space to inspire you as you move from the Meandering Path of self-discovery onto the Guided Path of WriteSPACE membership. (Spoiler alert: I assembled today’s paper collage from layered reproductions of the beautiful Roadmap graphic created by WriteSPACE Events Manager Amy Lewis).
An intimate recorded Itinerary— typically 5-6 minutes long — in which I weave your survey responses into a detailed personal profile and suggest the best resources, strategies, and tools to help you get the most from your WriteSPACE membership journey.
The WriteSPACE Journey Planner is now available by request to all paid subscribers. That means you could join the WriteSPACE today for as little as $10/month (see our Birthday Bundle special offer below) and set out right now on your personal pathway to becoming a more stylish, productive, creative, confident, and joyful writer.
I’d love to see you there!
WriteSPACE Birthday Bundles
Hurry, these special offers end on March 4, 2024!
To celebrate the third birthday of the WriteSPACE, we’ve been offering these special discounts and offers throughout the month of February 2024.
WriteSPACE or WS Studio annual membership + FREE Journey Planner, Roadmap, and Itinerary
This month only, save 33% off annual WriteSPACE or WS Studio membership compared to the regular monthly plan.WriteSPACE: USD $120/year (discounted from $15/month)
WS Studio: USD $360/year (discounted from $45/month)
Mountain Rise Retreat + FREE WS Studio annual membership
This month only, WriteSPACE Studio annual members can deduct the cost of their annual membership from the already discounted price of my Mountain Rise Writing Retreat in Wengen, Switzerland in June 2024 — the jewel in the WriteSPACE crown! To qualify for this special offer, you must be an annual WS Studio member who submits your expression of interest for Mountain Rise no later than March 4, 2024 and payment in full no later than March 15.
Stylish Writing Intensive + Wordcraft Catalyst
Shape up your sentences and sharpen your style!
Do you want to write with more energy, impact and flair — right now? The Stylish Writing Intensive (offered in March and October) is my signature 3-day virtual retreat for academic and professional writers in a hurry. Over three transformational days of writing workshops, editing exercises, and individual coaching, you’ll master the art of storytelling, nail the nuances of structure, unleash your unique voice, and perfect new techniques for polishing your prose. Cohort sizes are strictly limited to ensure individual attention for all participants.
This March, I’m bundling the 3-day Stylish Writing Intensive together with my new Wordcraft Catalyst course, which runs from April 6 - May 16. Across six weeks of writing workshops, experiments, and prompts, you’ll discover the delights of precise, nuanced wordcraft — from zombie nouns and vivacious verbs to gracious grammar, slinky syntax, and the neuropsychology of sentence structure.
Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your writing style!
WriteSPACE Special Event
Scholarly Writers on Substack
Mark your calendar now for this FREE WriteSPACE Special Event coming up on Wednesday 20 March from 3-5 pm CDT (Central Daylight Time). I’m looking forward to chatting with Sarah Fay, author of the popular Substack Writers@Work newsletter, on the timely topic of Scholarly Writers on Substack. In the first hour of this live 2-hour Zoom event, Sarah and I will engage in a lively conversation about how and why scholarly writers can thrive on Substack; in the second hour, we’ll team up to offer a hands-on Q&A and workshop for our subscribers. The first hour is FREE to all registered participants; the second hour is open to paid subscribers of our respective membership communities (the WriteSPACE or Substack Writers@Work). Register now to attend the live event or to receive a video replay of the first hour.
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Write more, right now! Join fellow writers from 30+ countries the WriteSPACE, the ultimate membership site for academic and professional writers who aim to elevate their writing game. As a WriteSPACE member, you’ll get premium access to hundreds of online resources, diagnostic tools, and live events designed to help you elevate your style, deepen your research impact, and coax your writing gently but firmly out the door.
Kia pai tō koutou rā (have a great day) – and keep on writing!
Helen
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
