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.
Gifts for Summit Participants
When you sign up below, here’s what you’ll get:
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.
A Tiny Moment Is Enough
In this short writing lesson video, 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.
$100 Discount The Courage to Write: A Four-Week Writing Lab
If something in my summit session resonated with you, I'm taking the conversation—and the writing—one step further this October. The Courage to Write is a four-week online writing lab for people who want to spend less time waiting until they feel ready and more time actually writing.
We'll explore what gets in the way of writing through specific writing activities, creative experiments, conversation, and plenty of time to put words on the page.
You'll get:
Four live 90-minute Zoom sessions
A guided Courage to Write workbook
Specific weekly writing prompts and activities
A consistent, Morning Pages-inspired writing practice
Creative exercises and Artist Dates
A private community space
One 20-minute check-in with me
Full access to my Safety in Numbers co-writing group throughout October
The discount is available until September 25, 2026.
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.