Have You Decided Yet?
The pen is yours
Your voice doesn't need to be certain to be worth hearing. It just needs to be yours.
A diversity of Authors
This space isn't only for people who've chosen a child-free life. We welcome collaborators who are parents, people who are celebrating their child-free life, grieving a child-free life, regardless of if they arrived at that reality by choice or painful circumstance; all have a place here. Whether you write it, talk it through, or just bring a question that's been sitting with you, the only real requirement is that it's honest.
Pick a Pathway for Collaboration
Share Your Draft
This is where you write it yourself, something that fits the topics and themes already living in this space. I might do some light editing, but your voice and your perspective stay exactly as you brought them. You can write it in one sitting or come back to it over weeks, whatever the piece needs to feel true. However it takes shape, this is still your story, told in your own words.
Talk It Through
Writing isn't for everyone, and some truths feel too tangled to land on a page alone. That's alright. This can be a conversation instead. I'm a researcher by training. I know how to ask the questions that get underneath what you're actually feeling, and I'll shape what we talk about into something that still sounds like you. Nothing goes live without you seeing the exact words first.
Spark a Topic
You don't need a draft, or even an interest in talking it through. Sometimes it's just a topic or question that keeps circling, a thought you wish someone would actually explore out loud. Tell me what it is. If it resonates, I'll take it from there and write into it myself, and I'll credit you however feels right to you: by name, by a name you make up, or quietly, with no name at all.
Regardless of the Pathway ..
If it needs a pen name, or you'd rather I not attach any name to it at all, that's yours to decide. Nothing goes live without you seeing the exact words first.