Episode 32: On Considering Giving Back the Advance and Not Writing the Book

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life. (Guest submissions are closed.)

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Charlotte is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers™. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. She’s currently writing her next book, Spiritual Direction for Writers, which will be published by Eerdmans in 2024(ish). For the latest and greatest, subscribe to Daily Nourishment here and subscribe to Five Good Things here.