You have ideas.
You have words.
You have a dream.
To put them all together, you need one more thing.
Time.
The Writer's Time
The Writer’s Time
A 7-week Gateless Writing program for you to give dedicated time and energy to your writing project.
September 26 - November 11, 2022
There comes a moment when you’ve written for a while. You have a pile of pages, thousands of words.
Or, you’ve thought about writing for so long. You sense that you might finally be ready to cross into writing.
What you need now is safe, steady, supported time.
Time to write more scenes.
Time to put pieces together.
Time to read through all the pages you’ve got.
Time to edit using Gateless principles.
Time to experiment and explore.
Time to learn new skills.
The Writer’s Time gives you the scheduled time and support to really be with your work at last — or for the first time.
When you have time to be with your work, you can harvest its bounty.
The Writer’s Time has three parts.
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Weekly 1:1 Writing Sessions
You get six (6) private 90-minute 1:1 work sessions with Becky.
This part of The Writer’s Time is the heart of the program. Why?
It is primarily time for you to write. This is a total of 540 minutes devoted to you and your work.
Such steady practice over many weeks helps you develop habits of mind, space, and writing to keep writing an active, dedicated part of your life as the seasons turn.
It’s where you get a total of 9 coaching hours with Becky, who believes 100 percent in you and your work, and who can help you see your power and potential.
We customize this 1:1 time to your needs. As Becky creates a safe, sturdy, enlivening container for you to work, we also check in about your work, talk through obstacles, find resources to support you, and celebrate your writing.
See testimonials below on what it’s like to work with Becky.
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Gateless Feedback & Salon
Each week, you share up to 1000 words with the group in a shared Google Drive folder.
Each week, you read one other writer’s work and provide written Gateless feedback (between 4 and 10 comments per piece). You receive comments from one other writer. Becky will guide you in the gentle art of written Gateless Comments.
Reading and commenting will take about 1 hour each week.
This part of The Writer’s Time helps you do two things.
You get to practice preparing written work to be shared with other readers. (Becky will support you in this process.)
You get to refine your ability to notice what you love in writing and put that positive response into words. This develops both your sense of craft, and your feeling of agency to use it.
These are vital experiences for both confidence and skill on the page!
PLUS: A weekly optional salon for generating new work. These will be recorded, so you can access the meditation and prompt at your leisure.
Salons help you develop trust in your creativity, and they connect you to a deep, funny, supportive writing community.
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Showcase
We end our session with a 90-minute Showcase night, in which you get to read your writing aloud, receive Gateless feedback, and ask any and all questions you have about developing the work.
This part of The Writer’s Time helps you…
Edit and revise the work for sharing aloud.
It also helps you hear the work and witness its energy in real time.
And it’s so much fun! It’s our party time!
Your relationship to your work deepens as you spend time with it in these new ways.
The Writer’s Time:
Details
a 7-week intensive program
a small, focused group of 3 writers
six 90-minute 1:1 work sessions with Becky
weekly submission of work (up to 1000 words)
providing written Gateless feedback for your fellow writers’ work to help hone your craft skills
one weekly Gateless salon
a Showcase night to share work aloud
Full Value $1995
Fall 2022 $1350
Is The Writer’s Time right for you?
Reach out to Becky.
Questions? becky@readtomepod.com
Working with Becky
To write with Becky is to be held, to be heard, to be taken seriously. Becky has an amazing ability to hold both the writer and the work, and to dive straight to the heart of what is working, and why it matters. Her feedback is resonant and relevant, and always helped me to bring the best bits of my work forward, either in the piece she had given me feedback on in that moment, or in the next thing I wrote.
— Abby Braithwaite
author of Contained, educator, advocate
I can only think of one word to describe Becky Karush: amazing. Amazing in the sense of the word before it became a meaningless proclamation. Her generosity, her insights, her ability to get the gestalt of a piece of writing is truly remarkable. And her voice! It would calm anyone. She brings her full heart and magnificent brain to our sessions, and I am so grateful for connecting with her.
— Nancy McMillan
writer, director of Arts Escape Writing and Literature Program, musician
nancymcmillan.com
I recently sent a major part of an in-process book to Becky. She was the first person to read it and her feedback was so smart and supportive. I received detailed written thoughts that were in direct response to my questions and concerns, as well as her own wise thoughts about the work. In addition, our phone conversation about the work was fluent, intuitive and so, so helpful.
— Whit Hill
writer, songwriter, author of “Not About Madonna”
whithill.com
Is The Writer’s Time right for you?
I bet it is.
The Writer’s Time Schedule
(Subject to slight changes.)
The program runs from the week of September 26 - November 11, 2022.
Week 1 — Orientation and first full-group meeting
Weeks 2 through 7 — Weekly 1:1 with Becky, scheduled at mutual availability. Share up to 1000 words in shared Google Drive, and provide written comments on one other writer’s work each week (4 to 10 comments per piece).
Week 7 — The second full-group meeting for The Showcase Night!
The Gateless salon runs concurrently through The Writer’s Time schedule. We will schedule the weekly salon together for our mutual convenience.
The Writer’s Time is right for you if…
You feel called to give energy to your writing project.
You have pieces of a first draft.
You have a full draft.
No draft, but you have an idea you long to explore.
Having a coach helps you get to or stay with the page.
You’re tired of waiting to do this work.
You’d like to practice reading as a way to learn writing craft.
You are eager to receive support from other writers, and you’re psyched to give support to other writers.
Check-in with Becky to see if The Writer’s Time is right for you. (The fact that you’re curious means it probably is.)
Talk to Becky
About Becky Karush
About Gateless Writing
Becky Karush is a certified teacher of the Gateless Writing method and has taught more than 300 writing salons. She graduated from Wesleyan University (B.A.) and Emerson College (M.A.), and she worked as a teacher, farmer, journalist, Disney magazine editor, summer camp counselor, and copywriter. She’s run her own business since 2012.
Becky is the founder of Read to Me Literary Arts, where writers learn to dazzle readers with fresh, brilliant writing. We know you can write amazing things, and so you do.
Through writing salons, 1:1 coaching, the Read to Me podcast, and tools to support your solo writing practice, we walk away from the cult of criticism. We help surface your innate talent, so you can write the stories that are yours alone to write.
Her family is Christopher, almost 10; Bob, the husband (also a writer); and Wendy, mom, who lives in their basement grotto (somewhat nicer than it sounds.) They are all readers. Three are introverts; one loves meeting new people. Right now they are reading Rivka Galchen’s RAT RULE 79. (A lot nicer than it sounds.) They live in New Hampshire and have a yard full of ideas. Ranger is their cat.
Gateless Writing is a neuroscience-based method that helps quiet the inner critic so you can tap into your innate genius with ease, whether you’re writing a novel, a proposal, a social media post, or tonight’s journal entry.
Gateless helps writers of all backgrounds who write for all sorts of reasons—for work, for fun, for creative pursuits, for emotional release.
It helps you break through creative blocks and expand in creative brilliance—without criticism or judgment.