A seven-week writing studio for writers balancing creative work with the realities of everyday life.
A seven-week studio for writers who want to make meaningful progress on their writing—without depleting themselves.
There are seasons of life when giving your writing the attention it deserves feels almost impossible. Perhaps you’re caring for family, balancing demanding work, navigating health challenges, or simply carrying more than feels possible.
Your days are full and, your energy is limited. Yet the desire to write hasn’t disappeared.
Write with Care is a seven-week studio designed to help you make meaningful progress on your writing project while building a sustainable relationship with your writing.
This isn’t a productivity challenge or a traditional writing class. It’s a gentle, structured studio where you’ll receive thoughtful guidance, write alongside others, and create practices that can support your writing long after the program ends.
Whether you’re beginning something new, returning to an unfinished manuscript, revising a draft, or simply trying to reclaim a writing practice that has become difficult to sustain, you’re welcome here.
Write with Care at a Glance
Dates: September 29–November 17, 2026
Format: Seven-week online writing studio
Includes:
- Seven weekly Writer Care Guides
- Optional live Zoom Writing Studio sessions
- Self-Guided and Guided Studio options
Designed for: Writers balancing creative work with caregiving, careers, health challenges, or simply full lives.
Is Write with Care Right for You?
This studio may be a good fit if you:
- want to make meaningful progress on an important writing project
- are navigating caregiving, work, or other life demands
- long for structure without pressure
- are tired of productivity advice that leaves you feeling inadequate
- want accountability rooted in compassion rather than guilt
- value thoughtful guidance and supportive community
What You’ll Experience
Weekly Writer Care Guides
Each week you’ll receive a thoughtfully designed Writer Care Guide that builds on the previous week’s theme, gradually becoming your own personalized workbook.
Every guide includes:
- reflection prompts
- sustainable writing practices
- space to adapt each week’s ideas to your own writing life
Whether you’re beginning a new project or deep into a manuscript, the guides are designed to meet you where you are.
By the end of the program, you’ll have compiled more than a workbook, you’ll have a guide—a personalized resource you can return to whenever life and writing begin to feel out of balance.
Sample Pages from the weekly guide:
Weekly Themes
- Week One: Defining the Work
- Week Two: Navigating Writing Obstacles
- Week Three: Writing in Fragments
- Week Four: Protecting Creative Energy
- Week Five: Building Your Support System
- Week Six: Sustainable Momentum
- Week Seven: Creating Your Writer Care Plan
Open Writing Group Sessions
Throughout the seven weeks, you’ll have access to optional Zoom writing group sessions designed to offer structure without obligation.
Each session includes:
- a brief welcome and check-in
- quiet, focused writing time
- a gentle closing reflection
Sessions are held Tuesdays from 12:00–1:30 PM Eastern on:
September 29, October 6, October 20, October 27, November 3, November 10, and November 17.
There is never any pressure to share your work. Join as many or as few sessions as your schedule allows.
Guided Studio Coaching (Optional)
Participants in the Guided Studio receive two private 45-minute coaching sessions with Candace. These sessions are designed to help you move your writing forward in whatever way you most need.
You might use them to:
- Discuss a current writing project
- Receive feedback on a draft
- Clarify next steps for a manuscript, article, essay, book, dissertation chapter, or other project
- Work through writing obstacles or creative blocks
- Explore questions about process, motivation, or sustainability
- Develop a realistic writing plan
- Reconnect with a writing practice after time away
- Talk through challenges related to balancing writing with caregiving, work, or other responsibilities
There is no required agenda. Bring whatever feels most important to your writing life in this season.
By the End of the Studio
By the end of our seven weeks together, you’ll have:
- meaningful progress on a writing project that matters to you
- a personalized Writer Care Workbook to return to long after the program ends
- practical strategies for sustaining a writing practice through changing seasons of life
- greater clarity about what supports your writing—and what gets in the way
- a renewed sense of confidence, momentum, and care in your writing life
Meet Your Facilitator
Dr. Candace Epps-Robertson is the founder of Full Circle Writing and the creator of Write with Care. A former tenured professor of writing and rhetoric, award-winning author, and writing coach, she has spent more than twenty years helping writers develop meaningful, sustainable writing practices.
Having written during seasons of intensive caregiving herself, Candace believes that writing doesn’t require a perfect life, it requires thoughtful support, realistic expectations, and care.
Choose Your Experience
Whether you’re looking for a supportive writing community or one-on-one guidance, you can choose the level of support that best fits your writing life this season.
Self-Guided Studio • $197
Everything you need to build a sustainable writing practice on your own schedule.
Includes:
- Seven weekly Writer Care Guides
- Access to every Open Writing Studio session
Guided Studio • $397
Everything in the Self-Guided Studio, plus:
- Two private 45-minute coaching sessions with Candace
Enrollment is intentionally limited to ensure every participant receives individualized attention.
Your writing deserves care.
If you’ve been waiting for life to become less busy before returning to your writing, this studio offers another possibility: making space for your writing within the life you’re already living.
Register here for Write with Care (Fall 2026)
Questions? Please email Candace at: fullcirclewritingllc@gmail.com