Hi, y’all! Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Kernel: inspiration, information, and insight for writers by writers. I’m Shelby, and I write this newsletter along with my fellow Kernelists Natalia, Neidy, and Sarah (check out our bios below to get to know us). A bit of backstory before we dive into our first topic: All four of us met through our biweekly fiction workshop, which we found through the MFA Draft Facebook group, and have since extended our conversations to group chats, book clubs, and writing sprints (a combination of the Pomodoro Technique and body doubling). We’re our biggest supporters, motivators, sympathizers, encouragers. We’ve created our own ecosystem to immerse ourselves in what we’ve all proven is our lives’ dedication: writing.
Thank you for starting this newsletter, and for attempting to build this community.
As a proverbially miserable and lonely writer, I recognise but also fall prey to the politics of the writer’s life. God knows how desperately we need an antidote to this isolation!
Aw, thank you, Richa! I love "an antidote to this isolation"—because that's what I feel like my writing group has been for me and that's one of the aspects we hope we can provide for readers. Thank you for reading!
A tantalizing inaugural post. Looking forward to more. I find that some of your thoughts and insights are deeply relevant to anyone in a creative field—and especially to people who, though not “writers,” have to write as a significant part of their work. Good luck to you kernalists.
Thank you for starting this newsletter, and for attempting to build this community.
As a proverbially miserable and lonely writer, I recognise but also fall prey to the politics of the writer’s life. God knows how desperately we need an antidote to this isolation!
I look forward to reading The Kernel.
Aw, thank you, Richa! I love "an antidote to this isolation"—because that's what I feel like my writing group has been for me and that's one of the aspects we hope we can provide for readers. Thank you for reading!
The "woe-is-me" energy is very real sometimes! Thanks for this kernel of inspiration to not continue being in isolation.
It truly is! Especially when those back-to-back rejections hit.
A tantalizing inaugural post. Looking forward to more. I find that some of your thoughts and insights are deeply relevant to anyone in a creative field—and especially to people who, though not “writers,” have to write as a significant part of their work. Good luck to you kernalists.