The Writing Well

Welcome to The Writing Well, where experienced writers and editors offer practical advice and tips for those who want to advance their writing. The Writing Well is a project of KindWrite Studios, a full service company that helps writers from gestation to publication via writing coaching, editorial services and personalized guidance for preparing work for submission and publication. Sign up below to receive our monthly blog, packed with practical information and publication tips for writers.

Welcome to KindWrite

KindWrite Studios is a full service company that provides writing coaching, expert editorial services — including developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading along with and personalized guidance for preparing work for submission and publication. In addition to one-on-one support, we host intimate and restorative writing retreats where writers can deepen their craft, find creative momentum, build community with other writers, and reconnect with their voice and their work in a nurturing, inspiring environment. We strive to nurture creativity, confidence and community in all writers by creating safe spaces where where writers feel empowered to take risks, refine their craft, and connect deeply with their work and others in the writing community

Editing Services Demystified: What You Really Get (and Why Every Writer Needs an Editor)

Jun 9, 2025 | Blog

Editing Services Demystified: What You Really Get (and Why Every Writer Needs an Editor) Novelists, short story enthusiasts, poets, memoirists, essayists...writers work under a big tent where everyone has their own approach. Regardless of whether you write with a slow...

How a Writing Coach Can Help: Practical Tips for Writers

May 21, 2025 | Blog

We’ve all been there. The piles of drafts on your living room floor. The folders scattered around your desktop (manila and digital!). The almost-finished essay you’ve looked at a thousand times but can’t quite nail the ending. The nagging voice that follows you,...

Meet Diana

Diana Friedman is an award-winning author, editor and writing coach whose creative writing has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, blogs, and popular press magazines. Diana enjoys helping writers re-discover and nurture their artistic and creative selves through personalized coaching. She currently facilitates summer creative writing retreats in the Basque Pyrenees near San Sebastian, Spain, and winter and spring writing retreats at Zigbone Farm Retreat Center, an hour from Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, She writes a newsletter, Under the Red Pen, and is currently co-editing an anthology of short fiction from Maryland.

Upcoming Retreats & News

Pyrenean Creative Writing Retreat, Basque Country, Spain
July 28–Aug 4 & Aug 25–Sept 1, 2025
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