the easiest newsletter advice you'll get this year

my unvarnished truth about newsletter consistency

Total irony: Writing about slowing down while surrounded by productivity books and multiple projects 🤷‍♀️

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After reading through the comments on my last few emails about slowing down over the summer, I noticed something telling: you're all being way too hard on yourselves about newsletter consistency.

Here’s what I’m talking about…

Kristi Keller 🇨🇦

: "Silent shame for skipping weeks."

Beverley Dickson

: "Trapped in expectations of our own making."

Jodi Morris

:"I'm the boss, but I still feel guilty!"

When I posed the question about thinking of newsletters as conversations that ebb and flow, that really resonated with

Lauren

and others.

So here's your official permission slip: You don't have to maintain weekly publishing if you're feeling overwhelmed (or commit to it right out of the gate if you haven't started yet).

🤷 I know, I know.

Every newsletter guru is screaming "CONSISTENCY!" at you from their perfectly organized content calendars.

But what if I told you that writing just TWO authentic newsletters this summer would help you reconnect with why you started writing in the first place (and put those of you still planning to start ahead of 90% of authors who never do)?

Here's the plot twist nobody mentions…your readers would rather hear from you twice with something real than every week with recycled advice they've seen everywhere else.

Hence, your July assignment (and I'm making this stupidly simple):

Pick ONE thing happening in your writing world right now.

Something like:

💡Your messy desk photo with a story behind it

💡A breakthrough conversation you had about your book

💡The research rabbit hole that ate your Tuesday

💡An unexpected source of inspiration

💡The ritual that gets you in the zone (dirty oat milk chai latte, anyone?)

💡The day you almost quit something (but didn't)

Write about it. Send it. Done.

No editorial calendar. No content pillars. No "building your personal brand."

Just one real story about your actual experience as someone wrestling words onto a page (or finally ready to start sharing that experience).

Permission officially granted.

The writers building the most engaged communities? It’s not only that they’re publishing weekly or even daily. They show up authentically, even if it's messy or sporadic.

Your future readers don't need perfection. They need to see that someone else gets how hard this writing thing actually is.

Now, go write something true (and stop apologizing for being human).

P.S. The irony isn't lost on me here. It’s Tuesday, and I’m giving you permission to slow down your newsletter schedule after spending yesterday second-guessing whether I had the energy to pull this together. (But the comments from the last post were just too good!) Sometimes the best advice comes from someone who's currently living proof that perfectionism is overrated. 🤷‍♀️

We're all just figuring this out as we go—might as well do it together.