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Alexander Chee's avatar

Doing it to feel alive again.

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Jami Attenberg's avatar

CHEE <3

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Elizabeth Marro's avatar

Because I need to know I can.

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Diane Sunde's avatar

I am writing today because I've wondered about the yellow jeep down the street that was parked there every M-F until this past spring and then it hasn't come back and then I wondered about why I kept thinking about wind phones and now here's an opportunity to find out why. <3

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mxdn's avatar

Wow I'm curious now too.

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Etheri Kakulia's avatar

I'm writing today, because I don't want to feed my fear of writing anymore.

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Jami Attenberg's avatar

good.

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Meghan Barr's avatar

I am writing today because I love my book and I’m going to finish it. Let’s go everyone!

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Sophie K's avatar

I am writing today because I love this story, it’s waited so long and deserves some dedicated time. Thanks to Jami for the chance to focus 💜

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Shaziane's avatar

I am writing today to stay grounded and to write the trauma out of me.

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Jami Attenberg's avatar

You got this.

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Shaziane's avatar

Thank you!

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Jodi Pyle's avatar

I am writing today because I want to finish this novel I started 6 years ago. It’s time.

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Ginn's avatar

I am writing today because I have been silent for too long.

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Kristina's avatar

I am writing today because it's when I feel most like myself.

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K. Carver's avatar

I am writing today because COVID/long-COVID has taken away my words in a lot of ways, and I’m ever-so-slowly reclaiming them—I want to keep working on that process.

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Jami Attenberg's avatar

good luck k.e. ❤️

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Shannon Turner's avatar

I am writing today because I'm sick of the story I tell myself that I'm a better story coach than a storyteller and that has to end. It's time for me to dance out into the fields unabashedly, turn cartwheels in my nightgown not wearing underwear like I did when I was a little girl. It's time for me to really manifest this Walks With Grief project - book? - I've been noodling with and talking about for so long because the world needs it and because I need to show myself I can and because yesterday I took a walk that actually brought me grief rather than moved me through grief and that was something new. It's time. LFG.

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Emilyne Lyndsey's avatar

I am writing today because I have this story in my head for many years and I want to get it out so I can hold it in my hands and always have it to read lest I forget who I am.

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Robin Facer's avatar

I am writing today because I’m so close to finishing this draft it keeps me up at night. LET’S GO!

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Jami Attenberg's avatar

YES

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Carlotta Dale's avatar

I am writing today because I've needed to kick myself in the ass for a very long time.

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Gabby M.'s avatar

I’m writing today because it’s so EASY to say I can’t do it then it is to say I CAN and I no longer want to hold myself back by comparing my experiences to others or convince myself that I cannot write. That’s no longer me. I am a writer and I need to embrace that more.

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