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

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I build brands and tell stories. Author of The Sky Isn't Visible from Here (Hachette) and Follow Me Into The Dark (Feminist Press).