Let’s make April the month we return!

Is there a writing project calling your name—a draft left unfinished, a book proposal gathering dust, an essay waiting for its final shape? It’s time to bring it over the finish line.

Whatever it is, bring it to RETURNING—a 10-day writing challenge I’ve designed to give you the structure, momentum, excitement and motivation to achieve the progress you crave.

I created this challenge because I know firsthand how powerful a dedicated sprint can be. In 2020, I wrote 18,000 words in two weeks, just by returning to my writing every day. Consistency, community, and reconnecting with everything you love about writing will get you over the line. The sentences accumulate into pages. This momentum drives you on. This April, I want to help you do the same! I’ll be returning to an essay that’s been lying fallow. What might you return to?

Imagine the renewed vigour you'll feel this April—your project finally moving forward, and your refreshed creative purpose as its shape comes into view.

Here’s what you get in RETURNING:

✅ 10 days of structured writing momentum—by committing to writing, April 23-May .
✅ Daily emails with inspiring prompts, sentence-level strategies, and advice to keep you focused.
✅ Daily WhatsApp voice notes from me—cheering you on, making it feel fun rather than punitive. No cringe pep talks, I promise.
✅ A vibrant Slack community of writers sharing support, motivation, and progress.
✅ A tailor-made Spotify writing playlist to get you in the zone.
✅ The magic of writing alongside others—you might feel like you’re alone in this, but you’re really not.

receive daily emails on these themes:

🏛️ Delicious restriction – how structure can be freeing
🪺 Stealing – in praise of pilfering
🦴 Archeology – how to unearth your narrative bones
🌊 Working with nature’s patterns at a sentence level
🍂 Writing as composting
⚖️ The conditions of writing – who supports us?
& more

RETURNING is £79 for 10 days of motivation, support, community, and commitment. The equivalent of a daily coffee & cake while you write (the kind of motivation that speaks to me!)

Join us in April. Return to your words! Show up with the time you have – whether that’s 1 hour or many more. Write around work or whatever responsibilities you have; the only thing you need to do it commit. By the end of RETURNING, you’ll have made real, tangible progress. More importantly, you’ll gave experienced 10 days immersed in work you know you’re made to do.

🔗 Sign up now, make April the month you let yourself WRITE that thing. Free yourself from putting it off!

All you need to do is:

💆‍♀️ Return to your writing every day, for 10 days
👹 Ignore the internal monologue saying you it’s all terrible. Write anyway!

You might, have these mixed feelings about your writing / project:

• Desire to return to how you felt when you were previously writing – immersed & familiar your writing world – and with what is to be done

• Guilt, for having left my project fallow

• Annoyance with yourself – you’ve been meaning to open your document for months

• Distractions of everyday life getting in the way / bleeding structure.

• Fear of continuing – is what I want to say even relevant any more?

• Shame – “it isn’t even good.”

• Intimidation - where the hell to begin with it all?

The good news is that we can always return! First, take a seat. Next, open your laptop or notepad. We only have to write.

What RETURNING will do for you:

• Renewed energy & confidence of committing yourself

• Connection & accountability of community - it becomes real when we do it together

• Daily prompts to get you started

• Daily WhatsApp voice notes to keep you in the rhythm

• Power through financial commitment – if you’re like me, sometimes we need to spend money to get the thing done; to symbolise our commitment to ourselves

• The freedom to write on your terms – around family, work & life commitments

  
  

Let’s keep each other on track by RETURNING in April! It’s time to give that project (and let’s be honest, ourselves) some much-needed TLC. 10 days of returning.

It’s £79 to join RETURNING. The equivalent of a coffee and slice of cake each day. Writing in a cafe (with cake and coffee) is an everyday luxury I often give myself in order to write. No carrot-and-stick, just carrot.