Daily Writing Prompts

Inspiring Warm-Ups to Generate Ideas

Our daily prompts are deliberately random and unique, designed to set off sparks in your mind. Every day, we drop a new exercise (and every two weeks, a story prompt). Take 10 minutes and then share your writing with us! Encouragement and feedback from your peers gives you momentum, so you look forward to your writing practice.

Write to a prompt every day, and turn a fun exercise into a valuable habit. ⁠

You may also choose to receive your Daily Prompts by email, every day at 6:00am ET, so you can get writing first thing.

Weekly Check-Ins

Your writing mastermind

These are consistent, brief, and actionable meetings for writers who want to get focused quickly, hold each other accountable, keep each other motivated, help each other find resources, and otherwise get amazing work done every week. This is the writing group you've been wishing for.

Private Discussion Spheres

Free from outside distractions

As graduates of our writing programs know, the magic really happens in the Discussion Spheres. In Centered, you get to experience that magic every day. It’s the place where you can meet friends, teachers, and colleagues, exchange meaningful feedback, and join stimulating discussions.

Our spheres are on a private site, to keep distraction at a minimum. We don’t use social media, so you can stay focused on writing, and not be interrupted by pings. And if posting your words on public sites makes you uneasy (we get it), you can feel safe to do so here. 

Writing Sessions
with Sarah

Monthly gatherings to deepen your practice

Join Sarah Selecky on the first Wednesday of each month for contemplative writing, hot seat coaching, and focused co-writing time.

Use these sessions to gradually create your own Creative Almanac throughout the year, apply insights to your current work in progress, or simply deepen your relationship with writing in community.

Sessions are at 11:30am ET on the first Wednesday of every month and are recorded for replay.

Learn more.

Guest Mentors

Workshops & Tutorials

Learn from bestselling authors of different genres, creativity coaches, agents, publishers, and more experts throughout your membership in Centered.

Guest mentors join us every month for live workshops and active learning. These workshops are recorded, so you can watch the replays whenever you like.

Meet our next guest! ($25 drop-in, or free for members).

Craft Book Club

Strengthen your technique, expand your toolkit

Every month, we explore books about the art and craft of writing. We discuss technique, experiment with new approaches, and geek out on what we’re learning together.

This is your chance to learn, practice, and discover how much easier it is to try new techniques when you’re not doing it alone. You don’t need to have read the whole book—each gathering is self-contained, so you can drop in whenever you like.

Submission Sundays

Make an impact, get published 

On the 3rd Sunday of the month, we submit our work! Send your writing to the contests, agents and journals with whom you want to publish. When we submit together, it’s more fun, and we feel empowered, motivated, and encouraged.

Don’t have anything to submit yet? Come anyway, and tap into our combined energy to create or polish your story to get it ready for submission at a later date.

Freewrites in the Field

Powerful writing time every week

These are fun and energizing 45-minute sessions that bring focus to your day! We’ll meet in the Field to say hello and write together using the Daily Prompt for ten minutes. After, you may choose to read your writing to the group for extra accountability and that sweet little rush that comes from reading aloud.

Sessions are Thursday at 8:00pm ET and Fridays at 11:30am ET.

Book Club

Read like a writer, with other writers

Twice a year, we get a chance to speak on behalf of the books we choose to recommend to each other. We look at books from both sides—as writers and as readers. We discuss the whys and hows of the writing itself, and find new ways to solve our craft problems.

Our book club is about reading widely, layering our influences, and benefitting from the shared intellect, passion and wonder that is alive in our community.

Open Mic

Read your work out loud

One of the paradoxes about writing is that it’s often done in isolation, and yet it takes a reader or a listener to give our work meaning.

Experience the benefit of reading out loud to the generous members of this community, and feel the energy in your new work. Our reading series happens twice a year.

The Field

Our gathering space

The Field is our private gathering and writing space. It feels kind of like Zoom meets Narnia. We’ve designed it for you to have easy and fun spontaneous co-writing dates with each other. The Field is always open to members, 24 hours a day, in any timezone. Whenever you need motivation and companionship, reach out to meet a member for a writing date in our virtual meadow.

The Life Cycle of a Writer

An assessment to guide your focus

As a Centered member, you’ll get our Life Cycle of a Writer scale, so you can assess where you are right now and make a good decision about what to try next.

You know you’re a good writer. But are you pushing yourself out of your comfort zone? Is it time to start submitting your work? Or is it time to go back to the beginner’s mind? Find out using this unique, sensitive, and detailed assessment tool we created for our members.