What Happened This Week We did something radical today: we stopped asking "Did you hit the number?" and started asking "What progress did you make in the last 30 days?" This isn't semantics. It changes everything. --Some major breakthroughs in the SPRINT call today-- Replay in the classroom for PREMIUM folks. (not in there with us yet? UPGRADE and come next week.) We will be diving into our second month in a row... of the sprint... continuing momentum See you there. What have you accomplished so far? What are you focusing on this next round? CONNECT ON THE CALL Month 1 — June (Establish) Each writer sets their personalized 90-day objective on the first Tuesday. Sierra helps shape it so it's both specific and achievable. Members get to know each other. Show up. Build the habit. Month 2 — July (Deepen) Writing time stretches. By now the habit is forming. Mid-sprint check-in: are you on track for your 90-day objective? Adjust if needed. Month 3 — August (Land) Push toward your 90-day objective. The final Tuesday is a celebration share — what you set out to do, what you actually did, and what comes next. Cohort decides whether they're recommitting to the next 90 days.

OPEN TO FEEDBACK... 👉 What are you learning from the process? 👉 What can I improve on my pitch? 👉 Is one stronger/more intriguing than the other? Lost on Purpose A When a 24-year-old teacher boards a one-way flight to China with no phone, no map, and no plan home, she wants to disappear into a life so foreign it erases the one she's failing to live, because she doesn't yet know who she is underneath the roles she's been performing — daughter, teacher, girlfriend, good girl — but she must first survive being stripped of every language, custom, and certainty she's ever relied on — collapsing into a depression so total it lands her in a hospital bed in a country where she can't even ask for help — before she can fall in love (with a man she can't keep, a culture she can't fully enter, and finally, haltingly, herself) and walk back into her own life finally able to say what she actually feels. B When a newly arrived American teacher gets dropped into rural China with nothing but a Lonely Planet and her own naivety, she tries to simply survive the year, because she signed up for an adventure without understanding what "foreign" actually meant, but she must first stumble through weddings, hospitals, night markets, and a hundred small humiliations that strip away her assumptions about herself, before she can realize that getting completely lost was the only way she was ever going to find out who she is.

My book has been out for six weeks or so. I am up to 9 reviews on Amazon, but less on Goodreads. Every time I see a new one, it makes me sooooo happy to know someone read my book and felt like they should share that experience. I am trying to keep that in mind as I roar through a huge to-read pile this summer. https://a.co/d/0eqnYG4Q

LESSON: There's No Right Way. There's Your Way. "How 6 writers in the same sprint have 6 completely different workflows." @Tracy MacDonald needs a library. Non-negotiable. Zero distractions. @Leslie Barber writes when the house is quiet (not scheduled). She uses AI to structure. @Emily Sutherland uses the hard deadline to push her to produce. @Sierra Melcher writes what excites her, not what she planned. @Barbie Applegate uses a four-part method (ideate, plan time, plan space, plan content). Emily, with ADHD, treats writing as an interruption to bypass perfectionism. @Carlie Kramer is finding her way and learning. Same sprint. Zero rules about HOW you write. We are here to experiment, play and find OUR way. Just: Write it. Finish it. Show up for feedback. The path looks different for everyone. That's not a bug. It's the point. Your process is valid. If you missed it, notes from today's call are in the classroom for all PREMIUM access folk. If you need this support and these calls, join us on Tuesdays at noon Eastern. We are starting another month strong !!!

This is so me!!!! I am easily distracted and spend too much time doing "research"!