Reader —

This time last year, I was ready to open registration for my first-ever NYC writing event. Actually, I’d been ready since I knew the dates, location, and max number of people.

There was just one holdup: what to call it.

I spent a ridiculous amount of time perseverating over whether to label it a writing retreat, a writing workshop, or a writing PARTY.

The problem with retreat was, you might think we’d all be holed up in cabins, scribbling away in solitude and meeting up only for meals and yoga. Sounds pretty good, but that’s not it — especially since I don’t do yoga and you’d be hard-pressed to find a cabin in Manhattan. Closest thing would be a fleabag motel by the Holland Tunnel.

Workshop appropriately implied the live writing lessons, exercises, prompts, and sharing aloud. But a workshop can easily take place on Zoom, and I didn’t want anyone thinking it was a virtual event. Also, I don’t love the root word: work.

(If you were to suggest “playshop,” I’d gag a little. It reminds me of a woman in a mastermind years ago who was full of rage and trying to launch a “Pink Playshop” all about celebrating the cooch. She was incapable of talking about it without yelling. Every time the words “Pink Playshop” left her mouth, they were accompanied by spittle.)

And then, party? That was the right vibe. But I ran it past ChatGPT — this was before I switched to Claude — and, while I think Chat bites the big one for writing, I agreed with its take:

Yup. Too valuable to just call it a party. But it is a party, I thought. And it’s a retreat. And it’s a workshop. Clearly, there was only one word that could describe the event perfectly:

PARTREATSHOP.

I kid. In the end, I went with retreat (because “Life-Changing Event Where You Write Your Tuchus Off — With Me” is clunky).

Officially, make that: BINGEWORTHY LIVE! NYC WRITING RETREAT

It was a huge success. An hour into the first day, I knew I’d be doing it again:

March 21-22 (Sunday/Monday), 2027

The sales page is all ready, with pics and raves from the last one, and the super-early-bird checkout in place.

The only reason I’m not linking to it today? I want to give you an advantage if you’re already raring to join us, because…

Tickets at the super-early-bird price will be limited, like seats on a flight.

(Last year, half were gone within hours of my releasing them.)

I’ll be sending the first invitation tomorrow morning, exclusively to my VIP interest list.

If you want first dibs on a super-early-bird seat, get your name down now:

​Tap here to add yourself to the VIP list in one click​

And look out tomorrow for that email. 👀

Let’s party! I mean partreatshop.

xoLaura

PS - Did I not tell you this??? I could’ve sworn I wrote a whole email about it, but I guess I’m thinking of my Substack post. I must’ve decided to wait till after my Inbox Hero promotion to mention it here.

“It” is…

​Me hitting the one-year mark of my streak on ​750words.com​!​

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