Welcome, wayward writer!
If you’re struggling with stuckness, need help with a specific writing challenge, or you’re curious about how to bring your writing into the world, you’re in the right place!
This newsletter is published by an editor who’s been working with writers for a very long time. (Hi, I’m Amanda Hinton!) It’s a place for anyone who’s seeking a sustainable, intuitive and effective way to be a writer in an increasingly online world—without losing connection with their inner compass.
Nourishment, editing guidance, writing frameworks and more
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Helpful frameworks and strategies for bringing your writing into the world, like in these top essays, Writing Seasons for the Wayfinding Writer and Luck Needs a Place to Land. Plus practical editing guidance essays, culled from my 20 years as an editor.
Creative nourishment and wisdom from guest interviews in the Cave of the Heart series, featuring folks such as Beth Kempton and Jessica DeFino.
Personal essays examining themes such as generational trauma and what it means to be late-in-life diagnosed autistic.
Deep dive with an editor behind the paywall
Behind the paywall is where I roll up my sleeves and work even more intentionally as your editor. Here, we’re tackling complex issues in standard writing and marketing guidance. These essays offer fresh ways to think about the writer’s life, including writer’s block, where writers belong in their stories and more.
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(Keep scrolling for some of our best stuff behind the paywall).
Amanda Bray Hinton. Married to Lee. Mother to Evagene. I cook, edit and write things. I meditate. I study Buddhism. I am a certified meditation instructor.
After being raised in fundamentalist Christian culture, I unwittingly launched a 20-year search to discover how to belong to myself and to let others in. And I guess you could say, the search continues in my writing here! After a couple decades in therapy, studying various religions, starting a few businesses and serving as editor/content strategist for small business leaders, I’m now reimagining what it means to be on the editing spectrum (see what I did there?) and shift between my calling as a neurodiverse writer and editor.
