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  • 2 weeks ago | lonelyvictories.substack.com | Hurley Winkler

    SUMMER WRITING NIGHTS ARE BACK!Join me for six weeks of co-writing and community starting on the first Wednesday of the summer. Just $20. $15 for paid subscribers: scroll down for the promo code. If you’ve been part of my Writing Nights series before: yes, this session is shorter than usual! I have some things going on during the later part of the summer, but I’m glad that I can still offer a more condensed Writing Nights for six weeks.

  • 1 month ago | lonelyvictories.substack.com | Hurley Winkler

    A ROUTINE OF ONE’S OWNTomorrow is the first night of my new class, which meets on Wednesdays for the next three weeks, and I absolutely can’t wait. This class will help you define and refine a joyful writing routine: one that actually works for you.

  • 1 month ago | lonelyvictories.substack.com | Hurley Winkler

    CONTINUING TO WRITEI’m an obliger. I need accountability to get things done. In the words of Gretchen Rubin, who first coined the term “obliger” in her research on responses to expectations, an obliger’s motto is:“You can count on me, and I’m counting on you to count on me.”I recently revisited Rubin’s book The Four Tendencies as I was preparing for my upcoming class on writing routines (which begins this Wednesday: SIGN UP).

  • 1 month ago | lonelyvictories.substack.com | Hurley Winkler

    📣 My new class on writing routines begins Wednesday, May 7. Sign up. FINDING TIME TO WRITELast week, I had the grand pleasure of teaching the creative writing students at my local arts high school. I started class by asking: “How many of you think it’s easier to write during the school year than it is over the summer?”I had a feeling that every single student would raise their hands. And I was right. That old adage about giving a job to a busy person? It’s even true among teenagers.

  • 1 month ago | lonelyvictories.substack.com | Hurley Winkler

    A ROUTINE OF ONE’S OWNToday, I am positively thrilled to announce and open enrollment for a brand new three-week class called A Routine of One’s Own. This class will help you define and refine a joyful writing routine: one that actually works for you. Creating this class has been a joy. I’m proud of the writing routine I’ve built and maintained for myself, but it wasn’t easy, and I learned a lot along the way.