I am officially moving all my communities to one site for ease. Join me here: https://www.telladraft.com/on-fridays-we-write This Skool account will be monitored for the next month. Thank you so much and happy writing!

How is everyone's summer writing going? Q2 has been my biggest writing challenge and it is paying off. Here are the first ten articles on my progress of drafting a book in Q2. If you want to join along, I would love to have you join my Zoom on Fridays at 8am. We write for an hour and you would be shocked what you can achieve in that time. Happy Writing! https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-0-my-q2-plan-to-write-a-book https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-1-following-the-plan-when-life https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-2-turn-the-project-upside-down https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-3-writing-is-a-superpower https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-4-write-it-into-reality https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-5-what-stevie-nicks-said-in https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-6-youre-not-an-author-yet-neither https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-7-character-flaw https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-8-on-fridays-we-write https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-9-the-messy-middle

TGIF! How is everyone doing with their Q2 writing goals? Please let me know in the comments. I would love to hear from you. My Substack articles for April, May and June are chronicling my book writing progress. Here are the first 6 weeks of observations: Week 0: My Q2 Plan to Write a Book https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-0-my-q2-plan-to-write-a-book Week 1: Following the Plan When Life Does Not https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-1-following-the-plan-when-life Week 2: Turn the Project Upside Down https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-2-turn-the-project-upside-down Week 3: Writing is a Superpower https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-3-writing-is-a-superpower Week 4: Write it into Reality https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/week-4-write-it-into-reality Week 5: What Stevie Nicks Said in the Rain https://heatherhays.substack.com/publish/post/196115291

I renamed this space to The First Draft Friday Club. ✍️ Because that’s what this really is. Yesterday, I was speaking to a group of entrepreneurs about using books to grow their brand, and something became very clear: It’s not that people don’t have ideas. It's that they don’t have a consistent place to write. Writing gets pushed, delayed and replaced by everything else. And eventually, the book never happens. I want this Skool to be the solution and a space where we write together every week. Because books don’t come from bursts of inspiration. They come from small, consistent moments of writing. And over time, those moments become a manuscript. And that manuscript can become a movement. On Fridays, we write. Here is a Substack article I wrote about our Friday writing sessions: https://heatherhays.substack.com/p/on-fridays-we-write I would love to have you join me this Friday to write. We meet at 8am central and the link is on the Skool calendar. Share with a writing friend or join me and make a writing buddy!

Some thoughts this week when your writing isn't working: https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherhays/p/week-2-turn-the-project-upside-down?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web