Rooted Publishing: A Seasonal Approach to Writing Online

A 4-day series to help you recognize your writing rhythms and trust your creative signals

Starting tomorrow, I’m sharing something personal and foundational:

A free, four-day series called Writing Seasons — designed for anyone who has ever struggled to stay consistent, felt unsure about their creative signals or wondered if they were “doing it wrong.”

Here’s what I want you to know:

When something gets stuck, it’s not a sign of failure. It’s a message that you’re likely just in a different season.

How we relate to each season of our writing directly impacts our ability to show up in our stories, for our audiences and in our publications.

I can’t wait to walk through each season with you.

What Writing Seasons are:

Writing Seasons are a way of relating to your creative life with more gentleness, pattern recognition and trust.

Writing Seasons ask us to acknowledge that if we’re publishing online, we will have an ebb and flow between what is creative and what is practical.

That we will have seasons where we focus on nurturing our creative inspiration and also some filled with never-ending administrative work.

It’s a framework that normalizes that creativity exists and is produced inside (sometimes in spite of!) the real world, within real constraints.

How do you protect your creative inspiration and also balance it with the practical needs of publishing on Substack? Tell us in the Publishing Spectrum chat. Open to all subscribers.

For me and many people, Writing Seasons are the antidote to treating your writing like a problem to be solved when it’s less than resplendent.

It’s a way to root into the belief that you — and your rhythms, your instincts, your process — are fundamentally reliable.

Over four days, I’ll share a deeper look at four creative seasons I’ve observed after years of working with creatives, storytellers and professionals. Here’s a quick preview of what we’ll be exploring.

Day 1: The Season of Musing

A wild, intimate season when your writing defies structure. It swirls, questions and refuses to land. You’re not producing. You’re becoming.

Messy? Yes.

Meaningless? Never.

Day 2: The Season of Tending

This is when your writing wants to reach people — not just live in your journal. You’re learning tools, shaping identity, building capacity.

Yes, it might involve branding.

No, it doesn’t mean betraying or normalizing yourself.

Day 3: The Season of Craft

It’s time to elevate and refine. You’re learning how to polish without perfecting, how to hold clarity without rigidity.

This is where writing becomes art, not just output.

Day 4: The Season of Rest

The hardest one. It looks like doing nothing.

But it’s deep work — unseen, somatic and essential.

This is the season that rebuilds you.

Is the Writing Seasons Exploration Right For You?

If you’ve ever thought:

“Why can’t I stay consistent?”

“Why does everyone else seem to be doing it better?”

“Why do I feel so distant from my own work?”

… then this series is for you.

It starts tomorrow. Free to all subscribers. Four days of honest reflection and creative companionship. Plus a free live session to explore together (register here so you can grab your spot).

Knowing your writing season might be the single most powerful way to stay energized inside your publishing and creative life — sustainably, intuitively and fully alive.

See you tomorrow for the Season of Musing.

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💬 Want to reflect with me?

I’ll be hanging out in Substack Chat this week as we move through Writing Seasons. Come share what’s shifting in your rhythm, what season you feel like you’re in or where your signal is starting to stir. I’ll be there, listening and gently responding.