RETURNING IN 2025
THE ONLINE CLASS
FOR DESIGNING AND DE-STRESSIFYING THE WRITING LIFE
Catalyze your writing this year and meet with a success unexpected in common hours
UNCOMMON HOURS
Membership in the Uncommon Hours track includes:
- 10 live monthly calls with QandA
- Live and on-demand guided meditations
- Productivity hacks
- Nature/art immersives
- Invitation to free quarterly virtual write-ins and readings
- Monthly writing prompts
- Rhythm of Life micro-disciplines
- Creative Soulfire practices
- Mastering Resistance exercises
- Vision-making statements and trackers
- Affirmations and invocations that help you manifest pages
- Guest speakers
Uncommon Hours is a community that is alive with writers and creatives like you who want to finish their passion projects—and do it by activating their joy, imagination and inner wisdom.
Find out how potent the combination of contemplation, creative visualization and solidarity with a creative, supportive community can be.
Join us in the Castle in the Air community!
WHY UNCOMMON HOURS?
Writing time is not common time.
If you’re frustrated with the effort of finding time to (at last!) write that book, essay collection or story collection—even themed Medium posts that help you explore it and find your audience—then welcome to Uncommon Hours, a community built around an online course about designing and de-stressifying the writing life.
You’ll get a toolkit of habits, hacks and practices that actually work for real writers. (I would say they are time-tested, but you may groan at the pun.) Plus, you’ll gain a whole new community of collaborators who are working it out, just like you are.
The format—a monthly slate of on-demand classes and live community meetings—work together to give you a robust experience for the skills and practices you need to be a thriving writer.
You may sign up for one, or both, at any time.
Join our warm and welcoming community.
Tap into the science.
Gain emotional fortitude.
And write those beautiful pages with us.
THE MAGIC OF UNCOMMON HOURS
Reclaim your time for what really matters
Master your rhythm of life
Activate your creative soulfire
Learn about the science of emotion so you can harness your emotional style in your favor
Deepen your meditation practice so you can weather anything with passion and grace
Mine your inner world so you become a master of originality
Activate your imagination and ingenuity
Hold a harmonious relationship with your Resistance (sometimes known as your Inner Critic, sometimes known as your Worthy Adversary, sometimes known as your mom)
Harness the power of your Resistance so you are a mighty force
Master creative visualizations and the power of affirmations
WHAT’S YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS?
With Uncommon Hours, you’ll know your creative process better than anyone else.
What helps you finish your passion project? First you get curious about how you write a book.
what you get
WITH UNCOMMON HOURS
Breakthrough insights
A rhythm of life you can sustain—because it’s yours
A network of collective care. You have a safety net. You have built-in accountability. You have a supportive community that will help you sharpen your focus, deepen your practice and stay on track.
You’ll learn how to:
Stay inspired
Support yourself as a writer with self- and collective-care
Tap into your own sacred rhythms
Practice the art of attention and improve your focus
Gain mindful mastery over your unhelpful thoughts and untempered emotions
Truly, deeply appreciate the creative being you are
WHO'S ADVANCING CONFIDENTLY WITH UNCOMMON HOURS
Uncommon Hours for me has been a source of grounding in a year of upheaval and uncertainty. Carolyn invites us to see writing not as a hobby or a pastime, but as a core vocation around which the rest of life needs to arrange itself. Writing is the pull in our psyches into which we fall into our deeper truth; it is the dance which invites us to step from the sidelines into the circle of belonging. Carolyn gives us tools, community, and structure to support our writing life. We peer over the edges of the chasms of self-doubt, confusion, and procrastination and, naming them, gives us a wee map around and through them. Throughout the series she offers us quotes, images, and stories which connect us to writers across landscapes and time who encourage us and remind us we are not alone; that the way through our words is trustable. By the end of the series I have found that the need to write is not only a dance but a discipline, and, having practiced the steps, I can stretch myself beyond the tired old narratives and fly.
Carolyn makes writing accessible and fun. Carolyn is patient, kind and very skilled, I will not outgrow her experience and expertise.
Carolyn Flynn’s outstanding online course, “Uncommon Hours," provided inspiration and new learnings to keep me moving forward toward completion of my first novel.