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Welcome to Writing Fire! 🔥
Hello, brave writer. I'm so happy you've found your way here. Writing Fire was born from a deep belief that writing is far more than a creative practice — it is a transformational one. Writing helps us hear ourselves. It helps us tell the truth. It helps us remember who we are. It helps us make meaning from the wild, beautiful, heartbreaking, astonishing experience of being alive. For many years, I have gathered people in circles — online, in classrooms, in living rooms, around retreat tables, beside rivers, and around literal fire — to write, reflect, witness one another, and transform. This community is an extension of that sacred circle. A place for writers, seekers, storytellers, recovering perfectionists, deep feelers, creative explorers, and anyone longing for a truer relationship with their own voice. You do not need to call yourself a writer to belong here. You do not need to be polished. You do not need to be productive. You do not need to know what your "big project" is. You only need willingness, curiosity, and courage. Some people will come here to work on memoir. Some to process change. Some to reconnect with creativity. Some to listen for what their deeper self has been trying to say. Some to experience the alchemical transformation of turning pain into art. All of that belongs. A few things matter deeply here: 🔥 We practice strength-based witnessing and feedback. 🔥 We honor confidentiality and emotional safety. 🔥 We value truth over performance. 🔥 We encourage brave honesty, while honoring intuition, boundaries, and self-care. 🔥 We believe creativity can be both playful and profound. This is not a place to be perfect. This is a place to be real. If you've just arrived, here's how to begin 🌿 1. Watch this quick 'How To' video from Lauren She'll walk you through the space and show you how to find your way around. https://www.loom.com/share/8778b4b1c6d145e481c12b3f88cbdd92 2. Read the Community Agreements This helps us create a space that feels warm, brave, supportive, and creatively alive. 👉 Community Agreements
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Writing Fire Community Agreements
Welcome to the fire! This is a space for truth-telling, creative courage, sacred witnessing, and human transformation through writing. We gather not to perform perfection—but to practice presence, spellcasting, storytelling, creativity, catharsis and authentic expression.. These agreements help protect the warmth, trust, and integrity of this community . 1. Come as you are. You do not need to be polished, articulate, wise, healed, or “ready.” Messy is welcome. Tender is welcome. Joy is welcome. Confusion is welcome. We honor the truth of where you are right now. Every emotion you have is fuel for the writing fire. 2. Offer strength-based feedback. When responding to someone’s writing, begin with what is alive, strong, vivid, moving, honest, surprising, beautiful, or resonant. Examples: - What stayed with me... - I felt... - I saw... - I was curious about... - This line landed in my body... We are not here to fix each other. We are here to witness, reflect, and encourage. Unless explicit editorial feedback is requested, assume the offering is meant to be received—not improved. 3. Speak from your own experience. Use language like: “I felt…” “I related to…” “This reminded me…” Rather than: “You should…” “What you need to do is…” No diagnosing. No debating someone’s emotional truth. No unsolicited advice. We practice deep listening, honoring and receiving. 4. Respect sacred confidentiality. Stories shared here stay here, so that we all feel safe Please respect the sacred confidentiality of the stories shared here.. You are welcome to share your own stories widely, but please honor and respect the confidentiality of others. 5. Participate at your own rhythm and pace. You do not need to keep up. Visit. Read. Write privately. Share occasionally. Come close when called. This is a living fire, not a pressure cooker of comparison or expectation. 6. Protect the sacred from promotion. Please do not use this community primarily to sell, recruit, market, or redirect members elsewhere unless explicitly invited.
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Goddesses: Forged through the fire!
What a remarkable Conversations with the Goddess workshop we had today! I drew the Sedna card (Inuit Eskimo and Alaskan Goddess of the Sea) from the Goddess Guidance Oracle deck not once, but twice--and everyone's writing about infinite supply was beautiful, kismet, and connected. I'd love to share a tiny excerpt of my writing here and invite @Cate Fitt, @Susan Buniva, and @Erin N to do the same! Goddess, it has recently come to my attention that things in my life are not happening on my time-table, nor are they going according to plan. My plan, at least. I did not plan to be down for the count for 6 weeks nor to keep experiencing more f-ing growth experiences. Please advise. Your confused devotee, Valley Jane Dear Valley Jane, Goddesses are forged through the fire, not on the beach drinking mai-tais. Sedna found her power through the forced surrender of her deepest pain, creation is born from the destruction of what came before. Please release your old ideas about time or plans--clinging to them will only slow you down. Let go or be dragged! It's always right now now now where everything is perfect already because you are the soul you came here to be, in a constant state of becoming. Honey, give yourself grace for showing up in human form--a notoriously difficult situation to inhabit. You got this. Love always, G. Please join me for more Convos with the Goddess next week, 9/1 at 2 PM EST. Add to your calendar here! XOXO, Valley Jane
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PROLOGUE of "Hell's comin' with me" book I'm writing rn.
' ' ' Two pipes were still burning under the balconies along the main road after the rest of the elders had gone to bed. These two had always stayed the longest, for as long as Marta could remember, and they always ended up the same way. "A red backpack," one said, as if the phrase needed to be said aloud for the night to pass peacefully. The other nodded. He didn't need to ask what it was about. He knew the story just as well, even though they never agreed on the details. Legend said that no one climbed the hills from the temple. The rocks stood almost vertical, smooth, without a handhold, as if someone had smoothed them specifically to prevent anyone from reaching the top. And yet, once they did. Someone was born in the village with abilities that no one else had replicated, neither before nor after. He reached the very top. He didn't come down. He jumped. All that remained of him was what fell with him, but not himself: a red backpack, lying at the foot, as if someone had left it there deliberately in plain sight. No one knew why. The elders had their own theories, each different, and none of them fit the rest. They tried other ways, too. The only route from the south, through the town itself, around, into the hills on the gentler side. Expeditions were carefully prepared, with supplies for a week, sometimes two. Some didn't return at all. Those who returned returned individually, not in the groups they had set out in, and they had no memory of what had happened to them since they disappeared from the sight of the others. "Ghosts," said the first, as he always did. "Or something that tells the ghosts to watch," replied the second. That was the only difference between them that Marta had managed to remember over the years. They didn't speak openly about the secret. Three people in the village knew it, and neither of the two pipes belonged to either of them. But anyone who sat on that threshold long enough knew that what happened in the hills and what the preacher guarded were not two separate things.
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WRITE WITH ME 8/25 and 8/28!
Hello hello writer friends, Writing our deepest truth transforms our lives. Are you ready to go deep into the heart of your writing practice? Join me this afternoon at 2 PM EST for Conversations with the Goddess---an opportunity to connect deeply within! Find you ZOOM LINK here:) And on Friday 8/28, I'm excited to lead the Full Moon Eclipse in Pisces....a cosmic transformational writing opportunity. Find your zoom link HERE :) I can't wait to write with you! XOXOXO Valley Jane
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