5 Questions to Reflect on Your Newsletter in 2025

In light of everything that will be shifting in the world next month, I can’t help but feel a sense of urgency...

I think that newsletters and writing and the voices and perspectives we have to give to the world are going to be more necessary than ever before in the new year.

Do you feel that sense, too?

That stirring call to (writing and creative) arms?

To pour more beauty, love, insights, stories, openness, vulnerability and gifts into the world?

I know I do. And I’m also humbly aware that getting our writing into the world through a newsletter is a lot of work. (As if having a writing practice wasn’t already like a full-time job!)

I know that it’s not always enough to publish an essay and move on. The writing and your readers need to be nurtured. There is some real intentionality about newsletter publishing that is necessary in order for it to be effective.

This is why in the new year we’ll be using this newsletter space to focus on the core components inside your newsletter engine. The things that help your writing get into the world more effectively through a newsletter.

We’re going to nurture our newsletters together in 2025

I’m working diligently to make this a space that allows you to do the steadying work of nurturing your newsletter. I’ll be here to remind you once or twice a month to look up from the depths of writing a beautiful essay and ask an intentional question like, “How are my readers doing?” or “Could this process be made more effective and supportive for me?” or “What does the data say about this?”

There are 5 questions (polls) below.

The five polls below are a chance to reflect on what feels top of mind for you right now — one part is designed to help you reflect a bit and one part is designed so that I can also better understand how to support you in the coming year.

Let’s begin with where you are right now. Together, we’ll find the next steps to make 2025 a year of steady, meaningful progress.

Thanks for answering these questions!

If there was something that one of my poll questions didn’t give you a chance to answer clearly, feel free to tell us below.