Writing Wednesdays

Because it matters!

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In 2025, I’m implementing WRITING WEDNESDAYS.

Isn’t everyday a writing Wednesday for a writer, you might ask? Yes! In a way. But also no. On Monday, I wrote an article about amazing moms juggling food entrepreneurship and mom life. On Tuesday, I wrote a profile about a new restauranteur in a town nearby, a blog post for a client, and then went back and forth with about 17 rounds of edits for a new client - a cool food organization. Lots of deadlines and deliverables.

I also took my kids to school, packed lunches, took Ace to the vet (he’s great, just a checkup, where the nice vet invariably remarks that Ace has short legs), did a million loads of laundry, made salmon bowls, paid my quarterly taxes, etc. Life stuff!

So on Writing Wednesdays, or so my plan goes, I write for me.

I am the client!

I am the editor!

I take a pause from the grind of work/mom/life stuff and write something I care about, or just want to write, just because I feel compelled.

That may mean plotting my new novel. (Yes, another new novel, after about 74 false starts.)

That may mean drafting a newsletter here (hey!).

That may mean riffing on the funny/sweet/strange things my kids have said recently.

That may mean surprising myself.

The first Wednesday of the year, I wrote.

The second Wednesday of the year, I was derailed by a sick kid and the usual influx of a busy work week and I missed Writing Wednesday.

And here I am, it’s 3 PM. I had coffee with a friend, I had a meeting about Julius’s transition from the toddler class to the big kid class at preschool (sniff), I edited a few articles for my ParentCo. job, I wrote a lot of emails, I had a deeply boring Zoom meeting, I randomly reorganized a box of random chargers and other such treasures, and here I am, finally, on Writing Wednesday, writing about Writing Wednesday. Quite meta.

If I write about it, it’s real.

I’m trying to reorganize myself so the first thing I do on Writing Wednesday is write (not the last thing when I’m rushing to finish or er, start, before school pickup.)

Next week I’ll be at IMM on Wednesday. It’s a big travel writing conference, and my first time going. Please hit me up if you’re planning to be there! (Also please tell me what am I supposed to wear?!) It’s also my first time staying at our new Manhattan apartment and I am jazzed!

Then the Wednesday after that, I made plans to write with my wonderful friend who lives in Princeton. We usually drive to a coffee shop we love about halfway between us and write and chat. (That’s me in that very coffee shop!).

What will a year of Writing Wednesdays bring? I’m excited/nervous to find out.

xo,

Hannah

PS Some great author-tested tips for writing in 2025, including one from yours truly!

PPS My friend and writing and teaching partner Hannah Selinger sold a novel!