A Good Life in a world of Bad News + Sit & Write #28

Greetings, friends!

This Saturday is our last week at Green Line and then it's back to our more comfortable digs at the Kelly Writers House. Hooray! I hope you'll join me for some productive writing time. More details here.

Apart from that, I've been trying to figure out how to engage with the onslaught of Bad News out there. Being politically literate is really important to me, so I watch and read current events obsessively. But at the end of the day, I have very little influence on the broader world. What can one person really do anyway? I have no answers for you yet, but until then, I am just trying to take comfort in the tiny community I can affect. As such, I think I want to reframe the opening and closing half-hours of Sit & Write as "Office Hours"-- an opportunity to listen and offer feedback on the work of my peers. Not hands-on pen and paper editing per se, but more like talking through the issues writers regularly encounter. So if you have questions about the writing or editin…