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Letter to your winter self – A Seasonal Writing Journey & Creative Course

Discover how to start writing again, overcome creative blocks, and reconnect with your voice, one heartfelt letter at a time.

Do you feel like…

  • You’re buying notebooks, pens, fancy sticky post it things and all manner of stationary ready to get writing only to…never start?
  • You open up your laptop, stare at the blinking cursor and think, ‘What do I even write?’
  • You’re irritated, frustrated, maybe even a little resentful, because you have all these ideas, all these stories in your head and nowhere for them to go.
  • You worry that with the rise of AI, your creativity may not even count where a computer can write your next scene.

Symptoms you might be creatively buried:

  • Blank pages mock you instead of inspiring you
  • A million ideas swirl in your head, but you never land on one.
  • You scroll social media, thinking about writing, but never putting down your phone and taking out your pen.
  • You secretly believe your words have a place, you have secretly started writing a book, but easily give up when you become too critical of your words.
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What if your story didn’t need a plot?

What if one small act, like writing a letter, was enough to remind you that you’re a writer?

Over 10 weeks, Letters to the Winter Self helps you:

  1. Write a series of Letters to your Winter self, the version of you that needs acceptance, courage, and permission.
  2. Pen a quiet gift letter meant for someone else in the community without expectation or audience.
  3. Create space for a message to the next writer joining this journey next spring.

This is more than “starting again.”
It’s returning to that soft, unedited place where writing feels like belonging.

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Tangible Outcomes, Gentle Structure:

  • 4-video seasonal course, each under 15 minutes, think cozy and reflective, not coachy.
  • Weekly prompts by email think sweet little stories that invite you back to the page and ignite your creativity.
  • Printed seasonal zine think away from the screen and back to something tangible. Your letters, your honesty, real paper in your hands.
  • Quote bookmarks think lines from your writing, curated into beautiful bookmarks for yourself or to give as gifts.
  • Anonymous letter exchange think helping a stranger receive creative kindness and think how it will feel sending it.
  • Candlelit Story Ceremony (optional) think a closing evening of collective creativity to mark the end of this stage of your creativity, and marking your journey to the next one.

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Why this works when nothing else has:

  • You don’t need to finish a novel.
  • You don’t need to launch or publish.
  • You don’t need to show anyone if you don’t want to.
  • You don’t need this to make money for you.
  • You just need to rediscover your voice, quietly, emotionally, one word at a time.

It’s the creative reset you didn’t know you needed.

Ready to rediscover writing as a human act?

Leave a note here to express your interest

I’m interested

You’ll to be the first notified when doors open in late August.
We’re limiting this founding circle to 40 creative humans to ensure each person’s words are held with intention.

On the waitlist you’ll receive:

  • Behind-the-scenes of the zine design
  • Gentle prompts you can use right now
  • Early-bird invites & bonus content

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