John's Writing Club #4

Building Muscle

Intro
This month we’re stepping away from the more technical aspects of writing for a while as we’ve gone deep quite quickly with that, but I’m happy to see some of that work showing up in your writings on your own substacks and so on. So for this session, I want to invite you to start building more writing muscle, which can only be done by writing. I was fortunate to have a brilliant mentor in my early days who really knew how to create the foundations for being able and flexible in one’s writing. The workshop below is something we developed together, and I have used parts of it throughout my teachings of creative writing. It will help build your versatility if you let it. So let’s get to it…