Sit & Write #274
Greetings friends!
We’re creeping up on some big milestones for Collective Lit. This week is our 274th Sit & Write, which means we’ll be at 300 in just a few short months. Next month, on May 4th I believe, will be the 6th anniversary of Sit & Write. And this newsletter is currently at 664 subscribers, which is 2 subscribers away from being a very 🤘 number. These days, my identity as a writer is inextricable from this community work. I would still write without you, but I’m far more prolific (and optimistic) with you. Thank you for keeping me company on this sisyphean journey.
I’m really excited about this literary matchmaking project I kicked off recently. I received 20 applications (all of them are real, good faith responses!) and am now starting to play tetris with the printouts. I have a few obvious matches, and several not-so-obvious ones. So, if you’ve been considering applying but dragging your feet, this is the time to do it, before I assign your ideal match to someone less su…