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Notes on staying human, curious, enchanted, creative, and playful, while we meander through our weird, wild lives + try never to give up on ourselves. (Or the novel I'm writing.)

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Paid Subcription Benefits

  • A Friday Love Letter To Your Messy Creative Soul (Full of Things I'm Learning + Loving Lately)
  • A Peek Inside the Raw, Rough Draft Pages + Process of Writing My Debut Romance Novel
  • Encouragement to Be Your Silly, Weird Self + Find Success In Doing So

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  • $5 a month

About Charissa Steyn

A forty-something debut romance novelist with four kids. I want to spend my days writing little love letters + seeking whimsy. Here you'll find permission to be creative, curious, playful, + imperfectly human.

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