✍️#meetthewriter (a fun, free community challenge) - runs May 1-15

Join my fun, free 15-day challenge to help us all get to know you better ❤️

Apr 30, 2025

Runs May 1-15, 2025 on Substack Notes

The questions will be added here daily. Scroll down for more info on how this works. Hope you will join in! Beth Xx

#meetthewriter Day 1 (Thurs May 1): CONFESSION ✨Why do you *really* love writing? ✨ I have called this one ‘confession’ because I want to invite you to explore why you think you really return to the page over and over (which might be different from what other might expect you to say).

#meetthewriter Day 2 (Fri May 2): PEEK: ✨What is on your desk?✨Tell us, or show us, or both! If you don’t write in a fixed location feel free to share a picture of your favourite café, or the tree you like to sit beneath etc.

#meetthewriter Day 3 (Sat May 3): RHYTHM: ✨When do you write? Are you an early bird? A tea break writer? A night owl? ✨

#meetthewriter Day 4 (Sun May 4): SEASON/SEASONALITY ✨ What do you love about writing in this particular season (of the year, or of your life)? Which is your favourite season for writing?✨

#meetthewriter Day 5 (Mon May 5): PARAPHERNALIA✨What essentials do you like to have around you as you write? (Pens, notebooks, lucky feathers etc)✨

#meetthewriter Day 6 (Tues May 6): ZONE ✨What helps you get in the writing zone?

#meetthewriter Day 7 (Wed May 7): THEMES ✨What themes do you keep returning to in your writing?✨

#meetthewriter Day 8 (Thurs May 8): ICON ✨Of all the books in the world which would you love to have written, and why? ✨

#meetthewriter Day 9 (Fri May 9): MANTRA ✨What is your writing mantra?✨

#meetthewriter Day 10 (Sat May 10): REVEAL ✨Where is the most unusual place you have whipped out your notebook to write?✨

#meetthewriter Day 11 (Sun May 11): OBJECT ✨Which single object best represents where you are in your writing life right now? ✨(Sorry this one is shared a day early but I am away for the weekend and didn’t want to miss sharing it!)

#meetthewriter Day 12 (Mon May 12): CURIOSITY ✨Tell us something that not a lot of people know about your which is, in some way, connected to your writing. ✨

#meetthewriter Day 13 (Tues May 13): PEOPLE✨Where do you get support for your writing? Which communities do you belong to (online or in real life) and what difference does that make? Who has been a particular support?✨

→ ✍️By the way, if you are craving community it would be remiss of me not to mention my beautiful private community hosted on Substack, which offers year-round inspiration and writerly companionship - we have our Late Spring Live Writing Circle TOMORROW! You would be most welcome - you can upgrade to paid via the link below or join at bethkempton.substack.com/subscribe ❤️

#meetthewriter Day 14 (Wed May 14): PATH✨ What is your dream for your writing life? What are you going to commit to in the next 6-12 months to help bring that dream to life?✨

#meetthewriter Day 15 (Thurs May 15): TRIO✨ Which three words best sum up the kind of writer you want to be known as? Also, where can we find more of your words?✨

WHAT TO DO WITH ALL YOU HAVE WRITTEN

And that is that, friends! Thank you for joining me. What a joy it has been getting to know you through your answers to these questions! Why not gather up the best of your responses and turn them into something, like an alternative About page, or a poem, or an essay or blog post? Would love to see what highlights you draw out to show us who you are as a writer!

WANT MORE INSPIRATION?

If you want to keep the words flowing and get year round inspiration, do consider joining my beautiful private writing community SoulCircle here on Substack. You can find out more here, or just uprade to paid or subscribe here (choose Annual for a lovely discount). Can’t wait to welcome you in! Xx

Friends, #meetthewriter is back! Join me for a 15-day community challenge to help your audience get to know you as a writer (and perhaps to help you take your writer identity seriously - go on, I dare you!) It is free and fun, and a great way for us all to amplify each others’ voices by sharing as we go.

Each day for fifteen days I will post ONE WORD with an associated QUESTION related to your writing life, for you to answer on your own socials. You can also use the prompts to inspire a whole essay or blog post, or simply to take a moment to get to know yourself better!

Last year lots of people posted daily on Substack Notes in response to each prompt, and then gathered everything together and shaped it into a Welcome Post which many people ended up using as their ‘hero post’ on their Substack. Of course that is totally up to you, but it’s an interesting thing to try.

It is very simple. You don’t need to register or anything. Just check my Substack Notes feed each day from May 1-15 for the question, and then write your response. You can write anything - short, long, a poem etc. - and include an image if you like. You are welcome to reply in the comments of my Note, or on this post if you like, but the idea of this challenge is to help YOUR people get to know you better so you might prefer to create your own Note or Post. (If you do that please do tag me so I can see it - I will be sharing as many as I can!)

I will be penning my own responses as we go along, and I do hope you’ll join in. Please share and invite your friends!

So, who’s in?
Beth Xx

PS #meetthewriter was started by me in 2024 but inspired by #marchmeetthemaker, which was created by designer Joanna Hawker in 2016.

Note: It can be tricky to find particular Notes here on Substack so please know you can always:

Go to my Notes feed and scroll to find the latest one
Come back to this post and check below for the word. I will add the questions each day as we go along. (Hint: Don’t jump ahead because the question might not be what you are expecting…)
Go to my Instagram @bethkempton where the same prompt will be shared each day (usually around 9.15am UK time)

Join the SoulCircle community

#meetthewriter is free to all. If you’d like to become a member of my close-knit, cosy writing community SoulCircle here on Substack, we’d love to have you. It is perfect if you have been writerly connection and year-round inspiration. There is currently a lovely discount on annual subscriptions, and we have so much goodness coming up. Besides the regular writing inspiration in your inbox every Monday, you also get access to beautiful bi-seasonal Live Writing Circles (the next one is May 14), live Q&A, our private chat space and more. If you think you might love it, join here.