This Writers Room Moved Me. Cozy Up In Your Lairs, Writers, & Join Us For Our Live Writing Salon.
Writers Daily Dive lets outsiders be insiders at 1:00 on Zoom. It's the perfect mix of solitude and togetherness. We meet. We chat. We mute. We write in Silence. It's a little bit genius.
I have never read any of Natsume Soseki’s work, but this writing den made me emotional. I love the wall of books on two sides, as if to protect from the intrusion of the world. I love that he/she must have actually read all of these volumes, since they are so close at hand. I love the low position of table and cushion, as if to ground the writer. I love the kettle at the ready! I love the worry stone, the ruler, the carpet. And I love the pen poised on the white sheet of paper. This must be a museum now since the artist died in 1916, but I would like to imagine that this writer left their desk with a sentence in progress so that when they approached their project the next day they were already in the middle of it. That’s it really. To be in the middle of it. This room is in the middle of it all.
Join Writers Daily Dive for one hour of focus during the chaos of the day. We are practicing serious self-compassion by showing up even on dark days. We meet on Zoom at 1:00 pm, EST. We leave our cameras on so it feels less lonely. We wrap up at 2:00. Those who are onto something just continue writing. Those who want to check in can chat.
Think of Writers Daily Dive as a safe landing place. We keep it a little loose. It doesn’t have to be stressful. You could use it as a silent place to think or meditate. But if you do want to write, you can use these images as prompts. I love writing from images. It gives me a structure. Write only what I can see. It's a great exercise for those of us who get lost in out heady thoughts - to stay in the image at all costs.
A subscription gets you a free week of the Writers Daily Dive. After that you can upgrade to $10 bucks a month.
Here’s the Zoom Meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86382041826?pwd=WlN6Z2IvaW03K1R3Y1FCR1ZiclVrdz09
Meeting ID: 863 8204 1826
Passcode: dailydive
Please also read : A Suitable Vessel. This is where you can read installments from Ghost Chapters From The Green Books, about life in the aftermath of my husband’s death in 2020.
Also on offer is a running writers group that has been meeting in East Hampton for 9 years! We now meet on Zoom. It’s called the Writers Collective Out East. We write in-group for 10 minutes, and then give feedback to members on their submitted pieces of writing. We meet every Wednesday at 6:30 PM EST.