Joyful Rebel Writer

I'm delighted to introduce A Home for Spark the Dragon, my new picture book for young readers, co-written by Jess Webb, with illustrations by Sarah Massini published in association with homelessness charity @Shelter. Available to buy at bit.ly/SparkBookshop

True change happens only in the present. When I write without editing or overthinking, I open up to the raw beauty of now, together with its messy, crunchy parts. This is where healing and creativity meet.

@mchshe.bsky.social Happy Birthday! Wishing you all the joy and happiness. Your work to elevate others voices is beautiful.

I see you
I write with you
Let’s alchemize life into words

Why Joyful Rebel? Because it's time to reclaim authentic voices.

Why Joyful Rebel?
Because there’s more to writing than publishing.

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It’s official: Research has found that libraries make everything better. Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A study from the New York Public Library surveyed 1,974 users on how the library makes them feel and how it affects t…

“Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks.”

What are you building more capacity for in 2025?

Sharing our writing, whether polished and edited to clever perfection always feels vulnerable. Because the most impactful writing is truthful writing. And truth, whether in fiction or not, is vulnerable.

Sometimes typing furiously is exactly what this brain needs. But most of the time nothing hits quite like handwriting with my blue Bic pen in my cheap Hilroy 5 subject notebook. There’s something so sensual about handwriting, don’t you think? Smearing the ink in pretty loops down the page. Yum!

Hi! I’m super new around here. Finding my way to connecting with fun and creative people who are intentional about their life. Is that you?

This is the ultimate healing from judgment and criticism that prevent people from shining their brilliance. Thank goodness for this rebellious group rising up!" – Juliet Kaczmarek

At Joyful Rebel Writer, we do things very differently and our writers know it!

Favourite takeaway from a participant in this morning’s Unbind Your Voice writing workshop: “I don’t suck at writing!”
Nope
You don’t
Not when your words are authentic to you!

Yesssss!

Reclaiming your voice is so much more than speaking up. It’s feeling safe to express what’s true for you even if it’s uncomfortable.

The words pour out of my pen
In the middle of the night
When the moon is awake
And I wish could sleep

#poem
#whynot

It’s nearly the end of November, a month to write. Did you get to write daily?
What did you write?

Wonderful play! I enjoyed learning a bit of history. Courageous man, Nye! And amazing performance from the cast!

This man is such an inspiration. And all the causes he supports to make positive change in the world. ❤️

You’re an inspiration. Congratulations!

At my recent writing group, a participant said, "I’m not a writer” and proceeded to write the most fun piece that had us laughing!

This is what happens when you show up. Writing isn’t about being “a writer” or having the perfect words- it’s about putting pen to paper and letting yourself play.

It’s the 10th anniversary of my first and only real book - “The Art of Asking, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help”, with a forward by Brené Brown - hitting The NY Times Bestseller list.

I think it may be time to write the sequel. I’ve learned a hell of a lot since 2014.

#booksky

Writing feels vulnerable even when you don’t show it to anyone.

It’s facing yourself on the page.

It’s quite the experience 😜

Woke up feeling a bit like an alien today.
What is all this about?
Maybe that’s the Pluto Aquarius thing?

Ever feel like writer’s block has its own personality? Like it’s stubbornly sitting there, saying, "Nope, not today!"

All our blocks are like that. That's their usual stance on most things.

What if we could get curious about that block instead of fighting it?

I’ve definitely had thoughts and stories I felt I "shouldn’t" say or even admit to, especially out there in the world. And write them down? Nope!

But I’ve embraced my human imperfections this past year. 2024 has been a year of reckoning and RECLAIMING in so many ways.

Writing has been my freedom 😜

It's not critique of grammar or structure that builds a strong writer but knowing the experience of those who receive their written words.

That’s why writing in community is magic.

So excited to share this amazing logo that my friend and tattoo artist made for my Joyful Rebel Writer movement for writers.

Not all writing has to be heavy or serious. In fact, some of the most healing moments come when we write with humor or curiosity about the hard stuff. Our group wrote to the prompt “joy in the mundane.” Participants wrote beautiful & thought provoking pieces about the smallest joys in their lives.

Some of our strongest beliefs about ourselves come from stories we didn’t write -- stories someone else handed us. But we have the power to rewrite them.

I believe everyone can write and reclaim our narratives, let go of those old stories, and find the joy in telling our stories our way.

Never was on twitter but I follow you on IG and now here 😀