I’m so glad you’re here.
Write More, Be Less Careful is a newsletter about why writing is hard and how to do it anyway. If you’re looking for help making space for your writing in a busy life, you’ll find lots of tips and support and community here.
Before my first kid was born, I was afraid that the pressures of parenting would get in the way of writing—but I found instead that motherhood cracked me open and transformed my creative life. This newsletter is for anyone looking for writing encouragement, inspiration, and practical guidance—and it’s especially attuned to the ways that caregiving of all kinds can be a challenge and a boon for creative work.
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 writer and a writing teacher. My first book of narrative nonfiction, The Good Mother Myth, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s in 2025. 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 pieces on 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 (@nancy.o.reddy) and read more at my website or see recent clips here.
