If you made a resolution to start writing in 2012 – about yourself, your kids, your journey as a mother – SheWrites is offering a special online writing class that will connect you with an inspiring group of women and get you writing.

In September, SheWrites started the first-ever Writing for Moms class where a group of 10 women from across North America got together online to share their stories and learn to become better writers. It was quite an awesome experience. The diversity of…

This story is part of a series on Writing and Permission that was commissioned by Cori Howard, the instructor of the SheWrites online class, Writing for Moms. The topic evolved in one of her online forums in which women started to discuss how hard it was to give themselves permission to write and to be writers. These are the stories they came up with. 

by Sue Urie

I’ve got about twenty, maybe twenty-five minutes of uninterrupted minutes to write. My five-year-old boy is behind…

Things I’ve learned from my community blog: what it’s like to be a blind mother, to adopt a child from an overseas orphanage, to struggle with fertility, to divorce with a child in your belly, to face the wrath of a teenager with bipolar disorder, to watch your child die, to live on after your husband dies in a plane crash, to lose your job and more seriously, to lose yourself. And that is just the short list.

I was first introduced to these life stories by the students in my online…

Over the next week, guest editor, Cori Howard, has invited students of her online Writing for Moms classes here on SheWrites to post stories on the topic of memories and writing and how the two converge and play an important role in our experiences as mothers. Hope you’ll join the conversation. Cori Howard starts us off…..

I lie in bed and stare at the pictures on my dresser. My daughter’s six-year-old face stares back at me. I examine her slight smile, her crooked…