A Writer's Diary with Charlotte Donlon

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life. (Guest submissions are closed.)

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Charlotte is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers™. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. She’s currently writing her next book, Spiritual Direction for Writers, which will be published by Eerdmans in 2024(ish). For the latest and greatest, subscribe to Daily Nourishment here and subscribe to Five Good Things here.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life. (Guest submissions are closed.)

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Charlotte is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers™. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. She’s currently writing her next book, Spiritual Direction for Writers, which will be published by Eerdmans in 2024(ish). For the latest and greatest, subscribe to Daily Nourishment here and subscribe to Five Good Things here.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life. (Guest submissions are closed.)

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Charlotte is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers™. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. She’s currently writing her next book, Spiritual Direction for Writers, which will be published by Eerdmans in 2024(ish). For the latest and greatest, subscribe to Daily Nourishment here and subscribe to Five Good Things here.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life. (Guest submissions are closed.)

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Charlotte is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers™. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. She’s currently writing her next book, Spiritual Direction for Writers, which will be published by Eerdmans in 2024(ish). For the latest and greatest, subscribe to Daily Nourishment here and subscribe to Five Good Things here.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, the Church Street Coffee & Books Writer-in-Residence, the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website, and the host of A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, the Church Street Coffee & Books Writer-in-Residence, the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website, and the host of A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, the Church Street Coffee & Books Writer-in-Residence, the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website, and the host of A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, the Church Street Coffee & Books Writer-in-Residence, the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website, and the host of A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, the Church Street Coffee & Books Writer-in-Residence, the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website, and the host of A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, the Church Street Coffee & Books Writer-in-Residence, the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website, and the host of A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Laura Boggess.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Submissions for guest diary entries are open! Visit ourfaithinwriting.com for guidelines and instructions. Charlotte is currently taking a break from posting her own diary entries, but she is happy to post diary entries from other writers. Send them in!

Laura Boggess has an M.A. in clinical psychology and works on a medical rehabilitation unit, counseling individuals and families going through traumatic medical diagnoses such as brain injury, spinal cord injury and stroke. Her newest novel, Mildred’s Garden, was released in September 2021. Laura and her husband, Jeff, are empty-nesting in a little valley in West Virginia with their slightly over-indulged Boston terrier, Bonnie. Follow Laura on Instagram @lauraboggess.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Laura Boggess.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Submissions for guest diary entries are open! Visit ourfaithinwriting.com for guidelines and instructions. Charlotte is currently taking a break from posting her own diary entries, but she is happy to post diary entries from other writers. Send them in!

Laura Boggess has an M.A. in clinical psychology and works on a medical rehabilitation unit, counseling individuals and families going through traumatic medical diagnoses such as brain injury, spinal cord injury and stroke. Her newest novel, Mildred’s Garden, was released in September 2021. Laura and her husband, Jeff, are empty-nesting in a little valley in West Virginia with their slightly over-indulged Boston terrier, Bonnie. Follow Laura on Instagram @lauraboggess.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Tamara Jong.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Submissions for guest diary entries are open! Visit ourfaithinwriting.com for guidelines and instructions. Charlotte is currently taking a break from posting her own diary entries, but she is happy to post diary entries from other writers. Send them in!

Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Montréal (Tiohtià:ke) born mixed-race writer and artist of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has appeared in Room, The Nasiona and Body & Soul
Stories for Skeptics and Seekers. She currently lives on Treaty 3 territory, the occupied and ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (Guelph, ON). You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @bokchoygurl.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Christina Kukuk.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Submissions for guest diary entries are open! Visit ourfaithinwriting.com for guidelines and instructions. Charlotte is currently taking a break from posting her own diary entries, but she is happy to post diary entries from other writers. Send them in!

CHRISTINA KUKUK has been an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ for more than sixteen years. A writer and pastor now living in Oregon, Christina started working at her local newspaper in high school, writing meeting briefs, wedding notes, and obituaries after school. She attended journalism school at Kent State University and worked as a business reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio. Since then, her freelance work has appeared in numerous publications. 

Her first book, Loving What Doesn’t Last, is on sale now wherever you buy books.

Twitter: @theRevCK

IG: @revchristinakukuk

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Christina Kukuk.

Submissions for guest diary entries are open! Visit ourfaithinwriting.com for guidelines and instructions. Charlotte is currently taking a break from posting her own diary entries, but she is happy to post diary entries from other writers. Send them in!

CHRISTINA KUKUK has been an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ for more than sixteen years. A writer and pastor now living in Oregon, Christina started working at her local newspaper in high school, writing meeting briefs, wedding notes, and obituaries after school. She attended journalism school at Kent State University and worked as a business reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio. Since then, her freelance work has appeared in numerous publications. 

Her first book, Loving What Doesn’t Last, will be out on October 19, 2021.

Twitter: @theRevCK

IG: @revchristinakukuk

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website and A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Submissions for guest diary entries are open through October 15, 2021. Visit ourfaithinwriting.com for guidelines and instructions.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website and A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Submissions for guest diary entries are open through October 15, 2021. Visit ourfaithinwriting.com for guidelines and instructions.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website and A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Submissions for guest diary entries are open through October 15, 2021. Visit ourfaithinwriting.com for guidelines and instructions.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website and A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.

A diary entry about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon.

We share diary entries about writing and the writing life from Charlotte Donlon and other writers because the writing life can be a solitary life.

Sometimes it’s nice to know we aren’t alone.

Submissions for guest diary entries are open through October 15, 2021. Visit ourfaithinwriting.com for guidelines and instructions.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website and A Writer's Diary podcast.

Charlotte helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other.

You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.