About Getting Crafty
Welcome to Getting Crafty — a newsletter about writing, reinvention, and the emotional mess behind making anything worth reading.
This is a space for new writers trying to figure out where to begin and mid-career writers wondering if they’ve lost the plot. Here, we talk about the creative process — not just the polished drafts, but the long, weird road to getting there. The self-doubt. The rejections. The scenes you cut even though they were beautiful.
You’ll find essays on craft, creativity, and building a writing life that lasts. Not a hustle, not a brand — just the real, vulnerable work of trying to make something that matters.
Some of the pieces are practical. Others are feral and feeling-forward. Together, they aim to make you feel less alone in your creative chaos. And maybe — just maybe — get you writing again.
Expect dispatches on:
How to write when you don’t feel like a “real” writer
Surviving the long middle of a book
Making peace with rejection (and using it as a scalpel)
Being creatively productive without burning out
Why it’s okay to fall apart — and then write your way back
