I’m still so glad you’re here.
Write More is now Be Less Careful.
As I’ve written a couple times recently, I’ve been feeling hemmed in by the structure I’ve built here, and I’m excited to share how we’re evolving. Writing, and the intersection between creative work and caregiving in particular, remains at the heart of this space. And we’re making room for other conversations I’m excited to have, too, including stories of midlife reinvention, how to get a lot done without buying into productivity culture, and figuring out how to be happier at home, whatever home means to you.
In this expanded version of the newsletter, you’ll find . . .
✍️ essays about mothering, ambition, and feminism
🏡 conversations about making our homes work for us, including previews from my book in progress about the early feminists who proposed some truly wild experiments about how to live
🐙 interviews in the good creatures series about caregiving and creative work
✨ practical tips for your writing life, including how to pitch essays, how to use scrivener for all your writing projects, methods for creative research, and more
🐛 interviews in the (new!) chrysalis series with women making big changes in midlife
🤔 and more! true to the new name, this is a space for 🌟 experiments 🌟
with a paid subscription, you’ll get—
💌 an invitation to a monthly zoom workshop to support your creative practice, as well as the recording plus a write-up of highlights sent out afterwards
you can find the recording of our first workshop, Creative Urgency in Dark Times, here
the next workshop will be on Sunday, December 7th at noon eastern via zoom, and I’d love for you to join us
if you’ve attended any of the Write More zoom gatherings, like the vision board or planning parties, I think you’ll love these workshops. and if a 🎉planning party 🎉 sounds like your kind of Sunday afternoon, you are in the right place for sure!
🧵 access to subscriber-only chats for problem-solving and accountability on creative work
when you’re a founding member, you’ll get—
💝 all of the above, plus a signed copy of any one of my books, some snazzy Be Less Careful swag, and my eternal gratitude for your support
a few fun things about this newsletter:
We’ve been a Substack featured publication, and we were included in the Writers at Work roundup of the 20 Best Creative Writing Substacks.
Write More has been featured in Electric Literature as one of “7 Newsletters That Will Improve Your Writing” (alongside actual heroes Jami Attenberg, Matt Bell, Nicole Chung, and more!).
For Jane Friedman’s website, I wrote about how this newsletter (this very one!) helped me find an agent and get a book deal for my first book of nonfiction, The Good Mother Myth.
And I talked to Sarah Fay from Writers at Work about how working on this newsletter improved my writing and about building community on a newsletter.
You can check out my Bookshop site for a curated selection of great books on writing—and great books that will make you want to write.
About Nancy
I’m a poet and an essayist, and my newest book, The Good Mother Myth, was published in January. If you think your actual kids are pretty great but suspect that “being a mom” is kind of a scam, it’s the book for you. I’m the author of three books of poetry, most recently Pocket Universe, and the co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood.
I’ve recently written articles about the shoddy science beneath attachment styles research and the damaging mythology of the “golden hour” after birth for Slate and making mom friends for Romper, as well as review-essays on the whiteness of the motherhood memoir and the political nature of motherhood at Electric Literature.
I teach at Stockton University in New Jersey, and I also lead community writing workshops and lifelong learning courses, most recently at the Cooper Street Writing Workshops at Rutgers-Camden, the Stockton Institute for Lifelong Learning, Blue Stoop, and Murphy Writing.
You can find me on instagram and read more at my website or see recent clips here.
