Soft Hobbies is on vacation for two weeks!
Here's some light summer reading for you.
You’re reading Soft Hobbies, a weekly newsletter for creatives in all mediums, with a special focus on writers. Here you’ll find resources to nurture your creativity, advice to overcome perfectionism, and inspiration to make time for art. I’m Auzin, a Seattle-based fiction and poetry writer. Feel free to visit my author website or check out my socials.
Greetings to the 805 softies who subscribe to this newsletter! Thank you for being here.
I hope the last month of summer is kind to all you Northern Hemisphere cuties~
I’ll be traveling this week and next week, so the next issue of Soft Hobbies will release on 8/20. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming down the pipeline:
An interview with Yasmine Ameli
What’s in my writing nook (and how you can make one too)
How to create when nobody around you is creative
50 ideas for activity-based hangouts
If you’re new around here or you just want some light summer reading, here are some recent posts that I think deserve a little more love:
Writers Not Writing: How Dungeons & Dragons helps Kat Lewis access her creativity
"Every player, every character, protagonist, however you want to think about it, needs something concrete that they can win, stop, escape, or retrieve by the end of the story. And then you add complications, obstacles in front of them, consequences if they fail."
Plotless novels with beautiful prose
With these books, you can meander. You might be left stunned and confused. There are no intricate Christopher Nolan-style plot structures here, no rigid Brandon Sanderson magic systems. There’s just you and the work someone made from their heart, with their hands, without explaining themselves.
7 steps to fall in love with writing again
I hear this from friends and acquaintances all the time: “I used to love making up stories when I was a kid. I would spend hours writing and it felt so natural. Now, writing feels like a chore/I only write for work or school/I’ve never tried writing for fun as an adult.”
Softly yours,
Auzin