Essay Club: March'25

Loop #6

Below you’ll find links, meeting times, streaks, and who’s working on what. This page will be pinned in all our calendar events. I’ve tagged everyone who filled out our Google Form, but consider subscribing to the “Essay Club” section in your account settings to ensure you get these each month.

Meeting times:

Look out for calendar invites. I recommended you bring a draft for live feedback (these events work as a good forcing function). But I can also (a) pair up people for discussion, and (b) create a focused writing room. Make sure you join the calls before :10 after!

Live feedback exchanges in February:

• Friday, 3/7 at 3pm ET;

• Tuesday, 3/11 at 8pm ET;

• Friday, 3/21 at 3pm ET;

• Tuesday, 3/25 at 7pm ET;

• Friday, 3/28 at 3pm ET;

• Saturday, 3/29 at 12pm ET.

*I introduced two new times based on request: I shifted one Tuesday back to 8pm ET, and I shifted our last Friday call to be on a Saturday at 12pm ET.

*Our daily weekday Writing Hour is at 5pm ET. That will start up later next week. Around 20 people opted in for that already, but if you want to join midway through the month, send me a DM.

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Published in February ‘25:

This is where I’ll keep a running list of who published last loop. You’ll see a number next to each name which denotes a streak. You get +1.00 for reaching the goal you set out on time, +0.75 if you’re late, and +0.50 for publishing anything (with a public URL). If you miss a month, your counter resets to 0. If you publish your last month’s goal late, DM me and I can update below.

Streaks:

• Becky Isjwara (5.0): I reached my savings goal. Then I lost it all;

• Rachel Parker (3.0): What the body knows;

• Jeff Giesea (3.0): This political moment feels like a rocket;

• Lily (3.0): How I arted;

• Coco Liu (3.0): China’s past and future, a celadon cup from the Song dynasty;

• Michael Dean (2.75): Watch me draft;

• Camilo Moreno-Salamanca (2.5): Book polygamy;

• Anuradha Pandey (2.5): The Diagnostic Manual of Feminine Behavior;

• Nat Lee (2.5): Why the failure to write is not a failure at all;

• Matthew Beebe (2.5): It’s tricky to rock a rhyme;

• Gairik Sachdeva (2.5): Drugs in the Balance: FDA’s Complex Job …;

• Karena de Souza (2.5): Co-Existing. Is it really that difficult?;

• David Kiferbaum (2.0): A Vision Statement;

• Rose (2.0): There is no TV inside my mind;

• Maksim (2.5): The Otterly Proper Tea Collective;

• Aayush Naik (2.0): Wasteland #1: Idealism and realism;

• Paz Pisarski (2.0): The Community Collective;

• Matt Cyr (1.5): Bad Idea? Or a Good Idea Gone Wrong?;

• Sairam Sundaresan (1.0): AI Myths & the Human Glitch;

• Melissa Silva (1.0): Did I Miss Anything?;

• Cris Valerio (1.0): The Drug Dealer At The Corner Bakery;

• Ines Lee (1.0): oops, i’m becoming codependent on AI;

• Hari Kanth (1.0): Redefining sitcoms with The Good Place;

• Rosemary DeSena (1.0): The Best Way to Write a Magnetic Poem;

• Justin Mather (0.5): Logs;

• Charlie Becker (0.5): Orson Welles as Falstaff on Late Night TV;

Our publishing score: 58% (26 of 45 published / down from 67%).
Our weighted score: 48% (21.5 of 45 / down from 61%).

Everything below this point is locked for the members of Essay Club.