HeyJaredInkCouragement: Creative Confidence with Dr Rachel Knightley
Making space for what you want to create – on the page or in the world.
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InkCouragement is moving house (opens the original)
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This newsletter is moving to a new home. While there’s been so much to love about Substack, this move is so I can be more intentional about my writing and reaching those it speaks to. From Wednesday 14th October 2026, InkCouragement will be moving to Patreon: Create your free account hereIf you’ve found my writing and creative confidence coaching helpful, there are ways to support it. The buy
Grief, joy, change (opens the original)
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‘There are worse things I could do’ (opens the original)
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I hadn’t had singing lessons for most of a decade before this summer. Then I found myself making my first EP as a songwriter. Even then, the most important thing wasn’t singing but story: I didn’t care whether I sang my words or someone else did; I cared whoever did made the song the best it could be. Which is why the literal voice you’ll hear singing my words on <a href="https://artists.landr.com/991048754416?prerelease_service=SpotifyPreRelease&prerelease_result=success&has_email=1¬ificatio
Green Lady, Part 1 (opens the original)
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Green Lady is in my first short story collection, but it began life in Green Ink Sponsored Write for Macmillan Cancer Support. Our theme that year was ‘green things’ (thank you, Kim Newman) and I mixed my present day corkscrew with my imagination of what it would be like to grow up with a father you were close to, and a little of my experience and other people’s of what it’s like to lose someone you love.So, trigger warnings aplenty: death, depression, grief, estrangement, illness, loneliness. A
The Writer’s Paint-palette (opens the original)
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