Come Write With Me
Hi, everyone!
Things are changing a bit on LIVING HAPPY AND WRITE BETTER NOW, my Substack that you receive posts from.
Change sounds scary. It is not scary, I promise.
If you only care about LIVING HAPPY posts, nothing is changing for you.
If you only care about WRITE BETTER NOW posts or if you’re a writer I’ve worked with in the past, this is really about you.
If you subscribe to both sections and only want one (gasp!), I have instructions on how to unsubscribe to a section below.
So . . .
I’ve decided to try to coordinate my writers that I work with a bit more, focus on community and resources in one place. That’s WRITE BETTER NOW. I’m also expanding opportunities to work with me. I’m still on Reedsy and I still teach Write Submit and Support at the wonderful Writing Barn, but I want to be a bit more independent (mostly of Reedsy).
MFAs are expensive. Writing classes can be really impersonal. What I’m doing here is meant to give you all the craft tools and a lot of community at a much cheaper cost. Plus, you get to pick my weird, quirky brain.
So, here’s the spiel:
Write Better Now is a space for writers and creative humans to create, celebrate, and learn.
Founded by NYT bestselling novelist and journalist, Carrie Jones (me), Write Better Now is about creating community while learning craft. Our posts and podcasts are a long way from pedantic. They are quirky, spontaneous, joyous explorations of how we can become better writers (and sometimes better humans).
Write Better Now serves writers around the world, published and pre-published, as they cultivate craft.
Looking for guidance? Support? Maybe just to finally understand what an objective correlative is? We’re here for you.
This Substack is the central space for all things Write Better Now.
For free subscribers: Our podcast episodes are usually out Tuesday. Follow-up posts about craft come out on Wednesdays or Thursdays. There are craft exercises and places to submit in the podcast notes each week. All your content will be where you’re used to it. No changes needed unless you haven’t subscribed yet! You can do that here. If you ONLY want writing posts, only subscribe to WRITE BETTER NOW when prompted.
Paid subscribers receive extra content on Friday or Saturday. Once a month that might be bonus interview with someone like author Chris Lynch (this Saturday) or an agent Christa Heschekle. Twice a month that will be a lecture from Carrie about a craft topic. It’s more fun than it sounds, we promise. If you’ve worked with Carrie before, you know it’s a great experience, but here are some customer testimonials and here are some more.
If you are already a paid subscriber on WRITE BETTER NOW, and want in on this new wildness, let me (Carrie) know.
If you are not already a paid subscriber on WRITE BETTER NOW, go on over here.
Founding members: For $150 a year, members are called “founding” and Carrie (me) will read up to 15 pages (double spaced) of your story (or your query and synopsis) and help you tune it up once. You can either have written feedback (usually ten-to-fifteen pages double spaced) or a 30-minute Zoom call.
Superfounders: Substack doesn’t allow any levels above FOUNDERS, but you can contact me, Carrie (I lost the third person POV here) at carriejonesbooks@gmail.com and you can be a Super Founder.
What’s that?
For $1,400 a year, members receive that feedback on 10-15 pages every single month. Plus, all the other benefits. You can split that up into 10-12 monthly payments or pay in one block. That first payment just needs to be on Substack if you want to be part of the community and have access to the paid posts.
I’ll also have an exclusive once-a-month, 60-minute group meeting on Zoom for members.
Or founding members can choose (you have to tell Carrie) a small once-a-month workshop space meeting (usually two hours) where you send in 10-pages and are also responsible for reading others’ stories. The size of this group is pretty limited and Carrie will facilitate. These meetings will begin near the end of March and most likely be on Sunday afternoons EST.
There is a special place to sign up for this, so let me know and I’ll send you the link.
As always, I do full novel editorial assessments and all the things. You can find more about those here. But I wanted to build a bit more of a community, too, and have a place for you all to connect and reconnect. You can do that via a bunch of ways on Substack that we can discover together. It’s pretty easy and chill to navigate.
I hope you’ll come hang out with me and learn with me and write with me as we build our community together.
Xo
Carrie Jones
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