Hi!!!
Welcome to Write Bites, a creative community that dedicates a precious few minutes each week (minimum) to their writing. Here’s what you need to know:
You should subscribe because…
You’re a busy person with a hectic job and perhaps family, but you want to live a creative life, or…
You want to create for yourself, to fill up your cup for once, not other people’s, or…
You want to expand your views on writing and creativity, perhaps learn and grow as a writer, or…
You have the creative dream job, but need reminding that creativity doesn’t always have to be work, or…
You are a busy person who “can’t make time to write” but you want to be a writer, and the thing about writers is that they WRITE, so what are you to do? You lower the goal for yourself from writing your magnum opus every day on your lunch break to just writing once a week. As long as you write, you’re “a writer,” and subscribing here gives you the accountability and structure to do just that. Or maybe…
all of the above,
but most of all, you don’t want to feel alone while you do it.
What you’ll get:
A creative writing prompt
Something I’m watching
Something I’m reading
Something I’m listening to
As my expertise is dramatic writing (stage and screen), the prompts may lean in that direction, but I will try to make sure they can be adapted to other mediums as well.
If there are other resources I can provide, let me know. I want to develop this space for all of us, collectively. I need you just as much as you may need this email in your inbox, so please keep in touch, and let me know how I can be of help.
Oh, right, who am I?
I am a TV Writer and Playwright based in LA. I’ve written on this show, this show, this show, and this podcast. I spent the better part of 2023 on strike and it reframed what writing means to me in my daily life. Creative communities are important to me that’s why I produce a staged workshop series in LA called See What Sticks, am a proud WGA member and join playwriting and screenwriting labs whenever they’ll have me. I also teach TV Writing at the Writing Pad online and one time I gave a TEDx talk.
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It’s time to join the crew
Be part of a community of people who share your interests. Participate in the comments section, or support this work with a subscription. You’re all here for similar reasons. Some of you may be looking for a creative outlet outside of your deeply right-brained profession. Some of you may already write, but you have a hard time getting in the right headspace or in-flow and need a kickstart. Some of you may be struggling to carve out a writing practice or routine for yourself, and this serves as accountability and structure.
Or perhaps you already write plenty for work or for yourself, but you want exercises to help improve your writing. Or you’re like me, and writing is your job and it has become imperative that you carve out moments to write for yourself rather than someone else. No experience is required to join us on this lil’ journey. All you need is a desire to carve out 10 minutes every week, open the email, and try to do what it says. Very low bar! Professionals, pre-professionals, hobbyists—all are welcome here!
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My Why:
I teach TV writing and I decided to start this newsletter (although I consider it more of a community, or accountability group? Like a book club, but for writing rather than reading, whatever you get it) Anyway, I decided to start this when a student asked how to structure a writing practice because she often felt that she was drawn to activities that were “creative” or “related to her project” but “weren’t really writing.” Thinking, is that writing? Making a playlist for a character, is that writing? Going on a walk and eavesdropping on neighborhood petty gossip, is THAT writing? Girl, yes. Anything on the path to creating the work you want to do is productive and useful. My goal is to take the hustle culture out of writing. Who says you need to write 10 pages every day to be a writer? “Writing” is ethereal and can mean many things. These prompts and little creative jaunts and assignments we do together are meant to encourage that. Writing doesn’t always have to be about page count, or executing a beat sheet, or writing a pitch or sample chapter. Let’s explore it together.
SPECIAL THANKS
to friends of mine who came to substack before me and with each little email in my inbox gave me the courage to join the fold.
