I’m so happy to see you! How to Build a Life is a newsletter by me, bestselling author of 12 books (with two more coming in 2025!) Laura Jane Williams, going out to thousands of readers bang in the thick of life’s mess and mayhem… who are still trying to find the magic. I’m almost 40, a solo parent by choice, and decorate my house like a tart’s boudoir. Those three things are my entire personality 🥰 I really love writing to you here. Hi.
pssst! There’s still spots for my new year writing course available. Over four weeks in Jan and Feb we’ll look at building characters, then writing dialogue, then making these characters who talk do stuff (plot!) and then we’ll put it all together in a final piece that you can send to me for feedback if you like. It’s a great group of people, all done over Zoom, and I am a very fun and relaxed and kind teacher. Would love to have ya!
Last time I wrote to you it was about my 2024 work failure, which I have been thinking of as The Failure Of My Year, my biggest womp womp moment, but then I did a massive poo at the gym and blocked the toilet and I realised oh! No! This is my biggest womp womp of the year! Rock bottom: you think you can’t get any lower, and then you discover the basement.