Forget the New Year's hype cycle. This is a grounded, two-part ritual to understand your year and shape the next…without the pressure, productivity preaching, or performative goal charts.
Most year-end planning for writers feels like trying to shove a corporate flowchart onto a living thing. It’s all shouting about quotas, arbitrary deadlines, and "crushing your goals" – a language that has nothing to do with the quiet, stubborn, human work of putting words together.
What if your planning felt different? Less like a mandate, more like a map you can trust, but follow along your own path and direction? You know, something that is actually useful.
This is just that. A structured, but reflective ritual built on a simpler idea: Writers don’t need more pressure.
The Seasonal Review for Writers is a two-session experience:
We step out of the chaos in December/early January to honestly see the year behind us.
Take a little break to let the past year settle (and celebrate with our people.)
Then we meet mid-January to design the year ahead from a place of clarity, not something we crammed in-between the appetizers and New Year’s toast.
I’m gonna be blunt: most annual reviews and planning treat your writing like it’s a second thought for solopreneurs. It's obsessed with funnels, launches, and turning your creativity into quarterly deliverables.
But your writing isn't a side hustle.
It's a core practice to who you are. It has good days and bad days. It needs space to breathe, and it will wilt under factory-setting pressure.
Trying to manage it with a corporate planning tool is like trying to use a sledgehammer to do needlepoint. The tool is all wrong for the work, and you are totally gonna slam your thumb at some point.
That’s why we don't do this for free in a random Facebook group anymore. Deep, honest review and intentional planning are important work. They deserve structure, guidance, and a container that honors the craft, not just the calendar.
This review is built for the work you actually do, and how it fits into the life you need to live.
Collect & Reflect
You will arrive with some simple pre-work (don’t worry, we’ll send it as soon as you sign up!) so you are not spending the workshop digging through the fog of the last twelve months.
You’ll have your highlights, your lowlights, and the raw material of the year at your fingertips.
Then we go straight into meaning. This session helps you:
See the real shape of your 2025
Notice patterns you may have missed
Identify what supported your writing life and what strained it
Understand how your year actually felt, not just how it looked on paper
You will walk away with clarity, perspective, and a grounded understanding of where you truly stand. (This also, handily, prepares you for January.)
Get to celebrating! You made it through another year. 🎉
Frankly, most annual planning ignores a key fact: the last two weeks of December are for merriment, not ruthless analysis. And that first week of January? Totally for your own recovery.
So we build in the pause.
Let your reflections simmer, and arrive to your planning session reinvigorated, not rushed.
Architect
Let’s be honest: January is not some magically clean slate. It is still winter. It is still quiet. Most writers are still defrosting. This session respects that.
Using the Annual Review’s insights as your blueprint, we design:
Shape a writing life that matches your energy and reality
Sketch your 2026 priorities without pressure or perfectionism
Build a steady, humane plan for Q1
Begin to understand your writing year through a seasonal lens
This is planning as a practice, not a performance. It’s a conversation with your writing life, not a mandate that it probably isn’t going to listen to anyway.
These two sessions build on each other. The Annual Review helps you see it more clearly and the Planning Session helps you build more creatively.
…feels like 2025 was a blur that you are still trying to understand.
…is tired of hustle-culture planning that leaves you feeling guilty or left behind.
…craves reflection, but never can make the time or space for it.
…has tried to wedge their writing into a life that doesn’t fit it.
…wants to build a structure that supports imagination, instead of suffocating it.
…knows the difference between a free planning webinar sales pitch and a workshop they’ll actually work at.
Basically, it’s for the writer who wants a ritual that reconnects them to the why, not just the how much, so that they can get through the next 12 months thinking “Cool, what’s next?!”
A Note If You’ve Joined Us Before
If you have done the Writer’s Wheel of Life before, perfect! Bring that experience with you. Reflection is not a one-time assignment. It is a practice.
Your writing life likely isn’t the same as it was last December. Your life changed. Your writing changed. Your attention changed. Think of it less as a repeat, and more as your annual reset.
Returning writers often find the deepest clarity in these sessions, because they can compare what has shifted and what still needs support.
Two Live, Guided Sessions: The Annual Review and January Planning workshops (90 minutes each).
The Updated Workbook: Your copy of the refined Writer's Wheel of Life, delivered before we start.
Lifetime Replay Access: Can't join live? The recordings are yours, ready when you are.
Your 2026 Writing Plan: A grounded, actionable sketch for your year.
Pre-Work Guidance: Simple instructions to collect your monthly highlights & lowlights, so you hit the ground running.
Realistic Reflections and Resolutions: A thoughtful structure for ending this year and stepping into the next, knowing what your writing life actually needs.
The Straight-Forward Details:
Dates: Make Up Date: Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 & Thursday, January 15, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern
Where: Zoom (links will be sent after you register)
What to Bring: Your completed pre-work, your own copy of the workbook, a notebook, and a pen.
$30 for the complete two-part workshop series.
You'll find dozens of free planning challenges this month. They’ll give you a generic template and a hype soundtrack, followed by a 25-minute pitch. This is different.
The Seasonal Review for Writers offers a specialized framework, live guided workshops, and a structured container built specifically for the writer's mind and life. You're not paying for boxes to check that you’ll forget about by mid-February.
You're investing in an experience designed to create clarity that will guide you throughout the whole year.
A note on access: We never want cost to be the reason a passionate writer misses this. If the price is the only thing holding you back, please reach out to us to learn about our sponsored support options.
End the year with clarity, begin the next with intention.
Let’s build a foundation for your writing life that’s steady, not shaky—and unmistakably yours.
Reserve Your Spot – $30
We’ll see you on January 6th!