Your life is a love story, just not the kind you think. An honest look at relationships, recovery, and writing from the bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest and Push Off from Here.
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where I've been
It started around the time I bought my house.
I began to get restless at bedtime, just as I was meant to wind down. At first, there weren’t any thoughts attached—it was more of an inner trembling, a vague feeling that something was wrong,...
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Hi, friends.
I’ve got three exciting offerings to share this morning.
Write with Me: Weekly Cowriting on Thursdays
If you struggle to secure time for your writing, or to focus when you’ve got it (who doesn’t?!), cowriting is nothing...
Writing through Fear, Doubt, and Resistance (Second Sunday, July 2026)
Replay and notes from Second Sunday session on July 12, 2026
In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make...
Second Sunday is tomorrow Sunday, 7/12
Topic: Writing through resistance, fear, and doubt. Plus, cowriting sessions start next week.
Hi, friends. Reminder that our monthly Second Sunday gathering is tomorrow, July 12, at 11 am ET.
You can trust yourself
Hello, hot summer babes. Or at least it was hot as hell here last week—so hot I’m still bitching about it like the New Englander I am.
I do not thrive in the summer.
I enjoy the early morning and late evening vibe of summer light, but the...
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Your life is a love story, just not the kind you think. Bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest and Push Off From Here. Founder of The Luckiest Club sobriety community.
Publishing expert + author w/20+ years experience in marketing, branding and storytelling, on a mission to help writers learn how to help themselves. Weekly posts on Wednesdays + feedback opportunities for paid subscribers. www.courtneymaum.com
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