Announcing Fireweed Writing School
A manifesto on learning to persist in your writing and to write anywhere. I'm finally pursuing my dream of being a writing instructor by starting a new, low-cost online class for those ready.
he fireweed is an interesting flower, it doesn't wait for soil to cool. [Before anything else dares push through scorched earth](https://www.wenatcheenaturalist.com/plant-recovery-after-fire/), before ash settles into earth again, [the fireweed arrives](https://conps.org/fireweed-the-fire-follower/). Brilliant magenta stalks rising from devastation. [Rhizomes that have waited decades underground](https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/forb/chaang/all.html), patient, and then suddenly explode into growth. [Sometimes within weeks of the burn](https://cottagelife.com/outdoors/this-regenerative-flowering-plant-appears-after-wildfire/).
In London after the Blitz, [it bloomed from grey rubble where bombs had fallen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaenerion_angustifolium). Locals called it "bombweed," these impossible flowers, pink-purple and delicate, claiming territory from ash.
Renewal through persistence. Our ability to grow not despite devastation, but _because_ of it. To always continue. To be first.
This is the spirit I'm building a writing community around.
## I.
**You want to be a writer.** You are brimming with stories inside of you waiting to be told. Where do you begin? I think a good answer to that question is right here. [**Fireweed Writing School.**](https://fireweed.school/)
Fireweed Writing School will be an online creative collective focusing on a mission with two simple objectives: making you write _better_ and making you write _more_.
I am starting this online school because it is exactly what I needed myself when I started writing over fifteen years ago. A community of like-minded (and weird) creatives and a focal point for the sacred art of writing.
I'm not going to bury the lede here. A lot of courses are on websites with expensive subscription models and ridiculous price tags. This is different.
I'm not tied to any corporation or company. I'm fully independent with nothing to upsell you with. What I'm announcing here is a writing school that charges **$5\* per class**, running every two weeks, for a total of $10 per month.
<small>\* In Canadian dollars, so it's probably even cheaper for you.</small>
## II.
**Who am I to say I have what it takes to be paid to teach you?** I think that's an excellent question. My name is [Brennan](https://brennan.day/), but my friends call me Kenny. I started writing seriously over fifteen years ago. I've been [writing poetry](https://bkpoetry.com/) and [in my journals](https://750words.com/person/brennan) for a decade and a half. Over one million words and hundreds of works.
I've independently published nine of my own books, five of which are [available on Gumroad](https://brennanbrown.gumroad.com/). Not only did I do the writing, but I did the cover design, layout, formatting, a
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