What you’ve grown 🌱

Kia ora,

With this month’s theme being ‘harvest’ (today I’m freezing grapes and grated zucchinis, and it’s thrilling), I want to ask you to consider what you’ve grown in your lifetime?

Is this a story you could include in your memoir? 

Perhaps you’ve grown a family, a  community or a home? Maybe you grew a project or a business? Maybe you grew your skills so you could help more people. 

🌱 Perhaps you’ve been part of something that grew from a seed of an idea into something that’s made a real difference in this world, while growing you, at the same time.

Right now I’m writing a book about a group of men who had what many around them called a ‘pipe dream,’ in the early 1980s. They wanted to bring a dilapidated hydro power scheme back to life. 

In the early days people stopped them on the street to tell them off for even considering the idea. Still, they persevered.

They grew it into a project that has pumped more than $1million in donations into their community over the past few decades. Plus, a whole lot of hydro power stayed local. 

I know you’ve grown something too, and that’s part of your story. Don’t be shy to write about it, no matter how humble, and to show future readers your early ideas, the growth and the growing pains.

Bring your future readers into your story, show them the sounds, smells, sights and don’t be afraid to share your feelings. 

And feel free to send me 200 words of your story (with a photo, if you’ve got one), so I can share it in a future newsletter. It doesn’t need to be perfect, just honest. 

Most importantly, keep writing, dear one, because the world needs your story. 

Charlotte x 

PS – and if you’d like some company on that journey, here are two ways I can help you. You can: do my year long memoir programme (teaching you to write, edit and prepare to publish your story, your way) or commission my team to help you turn your story into a book 📕