Between My Sheets: "I just want to write," she all but snarled onto the page.
Prelude: Episode 0
What if (re)building a writing life could be its own story? I’m giving it four Fridays to find out.
I opened the thirteenth email in just under two weeks and read those words again.
Jill, I just want to write.
For so many people to be emailing me the same five (sometimes six) words and asking for my guidance to do just that (and get paid) made me press pause.
I've always found a need, listened, and filled it.
This seemed like a pretty big (thirteen person) need.
Which got me a-thinking . . .
What if I conducted an experiment, live and in real time—one month, maybe twelve—to see what happens when I rebuild a writing life from scratch?
And document it.
A behind-the-scenes, pull-back-the-curtain blend of memoir, story, and lived experiment—about writing, creating, and being paid for being you.
What’s possible one year from now?
Well gosh, now I’m flipping interested.
So I’m doing something a little crazy.
I’m calling it Between My Sheets—a Friday word-drop experiment.
One messy, magical dispatch each week as I explore what it means to start over, create again, and build a word-business that actually works.
Something that might blow up like a firecracker display—a cascade of JOYful color shooting over the inky, night sky.
Or maybe a mic-drop dud, barely heard but still beautiful.
Either way, I’m in for the next four Fridays . . .
And right about now, you’re probably asking—what the blipity-blip is she even writing about?!
If you’re a writer, dreamer, or creative misfit who’s lost your rhythm . . .
Maybe you’re standing at life-or-career crossroads . . .
Or deep in the messy-middle—you’ll want to come with me and read my Friday words—Between My Sheets.
All the deets of what really goes on between the pages of a word-centered, creative business.
Because yes, you can write AND get paid AND start over, OR again, at ANY age.
Creativity is so varied, and—take it from me, a plate-spinning, multi-offer, prolific creator—sometimes the work is in learning how to say no to chaos and yes to structured ease.
Or simply discover one’s creative flow again.
Or for the very first time.
One Friday at a time.
I’m giving it a month—four weeks—to see what happens.
Let’s call it dating before a commitment.
If it resonates with those thirteen (and you), I’ll keep going for the year.
So much is possible.
And it all starts on Friday.
Just Jill
Continue reading:
Between My Sheets — Episode 1: The Morning After