Writerscape is all about one key premise: Some writing is better than no writing.

Over the years, I’ve learned (the hard way) that some writing is better than no writing at all. I’ve found myself editing a few pages in my kids’ hockey locker rooms (as gross as it sounds), or sitting on the subway, pretending I was on a call while narrating an idea into my phone before it disappeared into the ether.

I built Writerscape to help people who want to write but struggle to find the time, energy, focus, motivation. I’m not trying to help you build a practice that has you waking up at 5 am or carving out 8 hours on a weekend. I really believe that writing here and there, regularly, is enough. In my experience, having prompts and exercises to guide you can be an excellent pathway to building or sustaining that practice.

So: The free version of Writerscape will provide musings and insights into the writing life. The paid version, starting in November, is weekly newsletter designed to help writers of all stripes — emerging, beginner or experienced; fictionistas, memoirists, poets, screenwriters, diarists or doodlers — build a fun and truly sustainable writing practice. I’ve melded 20 years of working as a teacher with the knowledge I’ve gained writing five books together to offer a regular, structured, fun and low-ish stakes writing program.