Writing Through the Pause: Mining Midlife for Powerful Writing

A compassionate writing guide for women who are navigating midlife’s turbulent transitions and its profound impact on creativity, identity, and self-expression. 

Drawing from personal experiences, research, and 28 conversations with other women and femmes, Writing Through the Pause: Mining Midlife for Powerful Writing reframes the challenges of midlife—not as a crisis—but as a vital journey full of creative gifts that can be mined and polished into brilliant writing.

While the paths to your writing practice may change shape and direction, Writing Through the Pause offers commiseration, reassurance, and a variety of strategies to encourage midlife writers to mine the rich depths of this pause. With a little help, writers at midlife or any other difficult period, can discover renewed authenticity and power in their writing and themselves.

Jordan Rosenfeld is author of eight books on writing including The Sound of Story: Developing Voice and Tone in Writing, How to Write a Page-Turner, Make a Scene, Writing the Intimate Character, A Writer’s Guide to Persistence, Writing Deep Scenes and Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life, with Rebecca Lawton. Her published novels are: Fallout, Forged in Grace and Women in Red. Jordan has published widely in such places as The Atlantic, the New York Times, and Writer’s Digest Magazine. She is an online writing teacher, freelance editor and writing coach.