Welcome, Write Your Book Summit Writers!
Thank you for joining me for my session, Writing from a Place of Safety: Why Confidence Follows Compassion, Not Perfection.
I hope you came away with a little more permission to meet your writing—and yourself—with curiosity and compassion.
Writing can ask a lot of us. Sometimes what looks like a lack of confidence is something else entirely. Sometimes we need to feel a little safer before we can take the next step.
I'd love to stay connected.
A Gift for Summit Participants
When you sign up below, I'll send you a special gift created just for those who attended the Write Your Book Summit:
Creating a Safe Writing Space Workbook
This workbook is designed to help you identify and resolve unsafe triggers in your writing routines. Inside, you'll find writing prompts and an art invitation to help you explore what safety can look and feel like in your creative practice. Because sometimes creating space to write begins with creating a space where we can feel safe enough to begin.
And One More Thing...
You'll also receive my free video lesson:
A Tiny Moment Is Enough
In this short writing lesson, I'll guide you through the power of paying attention to a small moment and using it as the beginning of a piece of writing. You don't need a big idea or a perfectly planned story. Sometimes, a tiny moment is enough.
Sign Up Below
Enter your name and email address, and I'll send your Creating a Safe Writing Space Workbook and the Tiny Moment writing lesson straight to your inbox.
You'll also receive my weekly-ish newsletter, where I share writing prompts, creative encouragement, stories, and news from Open Sky Stories.
I'm so glad you're here.
Big hugs,
Erica
Want More Support With Your Writing?
This October, I'm leading The Courage to Write: four-week online writing lab for people who want to spend more time actually writing and less time waiting until they feel ready.
We'll explore what gets in the way of writing through guided activities, creative experiments, conversation, and time to write together. You'll also receive a workbook, weekly writing invitations, a private check-in with me, and access to my Safety in Numbers co-writing group throughout October.
As a Write Your Book Summit participant, you'll receive $100 off the regular registration price using this code at checkout: COURAGE100 (discount expires on September 25th, 2026)
Find out more about The Courage to Write 4-Week Intensive Lab
Looking for a Regular Place to Write?
Writing With Friends is my ongoing online writing group for people who want a consistent, welcoming place to write alongside other writers.
We meet three times each week for low-pressure co-writing sessions. You don't need to share your work or prepare anything in advance. You simply show up, spend time writing, and enjoy the company of other people doing the same thing.
About Erica Richmond
Erica Richmond is a Canadian author, college instructor, writing coach, and speaker who believes in the power of brave stories.
Her own writing explores the complicated, uncomfortable, and deeply human parts of being alive. She is the author of multiple books, including the Pixie Series, children's books that explore big feelings such as anxiety, self-doubt, and relationships through the lens of fairy tales. Her creative nonfiction has also been shortlisted for literary prizes and published in literary journals.
Through Open Sky Stories, Erica leads writing groups, workshops, and retreats and works one-on-one with writers who are finding their way into a story or looking for support along the way.
Whether she is writing, teaching, or speaking, Erica is interested in what happens when we approach ourselves and our stories with a little more curiosity, compassion, and courage.