Somewhere inside you, there are characters waiting to be written, stories longing to be told, and letters that have never been sent.
In the Writing Shed is a podcast for women who love stories, letters, and the beauty of a life lived with imagination.
Each week, Dani Pescuma - writer, teacher, and founder of The Writing Shed - opens a door into a feeling, a story, or a creative experience that might just make you reach for your notebook.
You don't need to be a writer to be here. You just need to be curious.
Grab a cuppa. Settle down. Let's begin. 🤗🌷
Episode 7 - What Journaling Can't Give You (That Creative Writing Can)
What’s the difference between journaling and creative writing - and which one are you being called towards right now?
In this episode, let's explore the beautiful line between writing to process your own life and writing to create a story beyond yourself.
Journaling can be a mirror: a place to untangle thoughts, emotions, conversations, memories, and the things that circle in your head at three in the morning.
Creative writing can be a doorway: a way to become someone else for a while, build a world, and sometimes tell the truest version of your own story through a character, a scene, or a voice that isn’t directly yours.
You’ll hear reflections on journaling, fiction, truth, distance, disguise, and the quiet magic of letting the page show you something you didn’t know you were ready to see.
This week’s invitation: try the kind of writing you usually avoid for just 10 minutes.
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Resources mentioned:
✍️ Feel. Write. Blossom.
https://danielapescuma.com/tws-products/e-book-feel-write-blossom/ (https://danielapescuma.com/tws-products/e-book-feel-write-blossom/)
💃🏻 Waltz into Writing
https://danielapescuma.com/waltz-into-writing/ (https://danielapescuma.com/waltz-into-writing/)
✨ Find out more about The Writing Shed world
https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/ (https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/)
19 May 2026
Episode 6 - The lost art of the penpal: why slow letters changed how I see the world
It's 1994. I am 18 years old, sitting at a chaotic bedroom desk, writing a letter in my best handwriting to a girl called Chris in Austria. I had never met her. We would write to each other for three years.
In this episode, I make the case for slow letters: what they give us that a text or email never can, why waiting for a reply is its own quiet joy, and what Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West knew about putting the truest things on paper.
Your writing invitation: write the first line of a letter you haven't written yet.
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If you’d love to keep writing with me beyond this episode, I’d love to invite you into The Writing Shed Club. It’s an online writing community for women, and inside you will find: daily prompts, monthly writing themes, printable tools, mini-lessons, live writing circles, weekly co-writing time and more.
Come and write with us here 👇🏻
https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/ (https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/)
12 May 2026
Episode 5 - Why "I'm not a real writer" is the most expensive lie you tell yourself
Do you have a notebook - or several - that you bought with every intention of filling... and didn't?
Do you love the idea of writing but hear a quiet voice asking: who do you think you are?
In this episode, I trace where that voice comes from, dismantles the myth of the "real writer," and make the case that the most expensive thing you can do is keep listening to it. Featuring Toni Morrison, Agatha Christie, and one very unbroken notebook spine. 😉
Your writing invitation this week: write one true thing. Just for you.
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If you’d love to keep writing with me beyond this episode, I’d love to invite you into The Writing Shed Club. It’s an online writing community for women, and inside you will find: daily prompts, monthly writing themes, printable tools, mini-lessons, live writing circles, weekly co-writing time and more.
Come and write with us here 👇🏻
https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/ (https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/)
28 Apr 2026
Episode 4 - Letters from the Shed: Write a letter to someone you love — living or not
Think of someone you love. When did you last truly tell them what they mean to you?
This week in the Writing Shed is different. There's less talking from me, and more space for you. Because today, we're writing a letter. To anyone: living or not, present or thirty years gone.
I open with a beautiful trunk full of letters, my mother's handwriting, and the things that went unsaid. I make room for writing to the dead; not morbidly, but tenderly, as one of the most human things a writer can do. And then I step back, and hand you the page.
Four questions to help you begin. No rules. No structure required. Just the thing you haven't said yet.
I'd love to know who you're writing your letter to! Let me know in the comments. 🤗
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If you’d love to keep writing with me beyond this episode, I’d love to invite you into The Writing Shed Club. It’s an online writing community for women, and inside you will find: daily prompts, monthly writing themes, printable tools, mini-lessons, live writing circles, weekly co-writing time and more.
Come and write with us here 👇🏻
https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/ (https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/)
21 Apr 2026
Episode 3 - What does it mean to romanticise your life - and why writing is the fastest way there?
One afternoon, Dani went for a walk she almost didn't take. She put her headphones in, ready to be productive. And then she stopped. And took them out. And wrote one paragraph on her phone, standing under the trees.
That paragraph changed something.
This episode is about romanticising your life — not the Instagram version, but the Romantic-poet version: paying fierce, deliberate attention to the ordinary things before they slip past. And why writing is, without question, the fastest way to see what's already there.
Featuring Keats, Wordsworth, Henry James -and a cup of coffee that was finally the right temperature.
🖋️ Your writing invitation: What's the most ordinary, unremarkable thing about your day that you've never once written down?
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If you’d love to keep writing with me beyond this episode, I’d love to invite you into The Writing Shed Club. It’s an online writing community for women, and inside you will find: daily prompts, monthly writing themes, printable tools, mini-lessons, live writing circles, weekly co-writing time and more.
Come and write with us here 👇🏻
https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/ (https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/)
31 Mar 2026
Episode 2 - What I Found in my Mother's Letters
There's a trunk in my Writing Shed covered in roses and butterflies and French script. Inside it lives some of my most precious possessions: letters and notes from my mother.
In this episode I'm opening that trunk and sharing what I found inside. What her letters taught me about love, about presence, and about the voices we almost lose. And how, when she died suddenly and I was travelling alone with nowhere to put my grief, I picked up a pen and started writing back.
This episode is for anyone who has ever lost someone they love. And for anyone who has words they never got to say.
Because some things deserve to be written, even if no one ever reads them.
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If you’d love to keep writing with me beyond this episode, I’d love to invite you into The Writing Shed Club. It’s an online writing community for women, and inside you will find: daily prompts, monthly writing themes, printable tools, mini-lessons, live writing circles, weekly co-writing time and more.
Come and write with us here 👇🏻
https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/ (https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/)
24 Mar 2026
Episode 1 - Tuesdays with Dani
What if the most important conversation of your life started with a casual "really good" over lunch?
In this first episode of In The Writing Shed, I want to tell you about a film my father recommended to me over 20 years ago, and how that quiet, ordinary moment has shaped everything I think about time, presence, and the people we love.
We're talking about Tuesdays with Morrie: the story of a dying professor, a devoted student, and the lessons that emerge when we stop sleepwalking through our lives. And we're talking about what it means to finally say the things we've been carrying silently for years.
This is Episode 1. And it's called Tuesdays with Dani.
✍️ In this episode:
— Why this podcast exists on a Tuesday
— The film that broke my heart open (and my father's connection to it)
— What Morrie Schwartz teaches us about presence, time, and showing up for our lives
— A writing prompt to take with you into your week
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New episodes every Tuesday. Because you deserve a moment that belongs to you. 🤗🌷
In The Writing Shed is a podcast for people who want to write - or who are already writing - and need a Tuesday to come back to themselves.
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🔗 Links mentioned:
- Waltz into Writing: https://danielapescuma.com/waltz-into-writing/ (https://danielapescuma.com/waltz-into-writing/)
- Tuesdays with Morrie (book): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuesdays-Morrie-young-greatest-lesson/dp/0751529818 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuesdays-Morrie-young-greatest-lesson/dp/0751529818)
- Tuesday with Morrie (film): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuesdays-Morrie-DVD-Jack-Lemmon/dp/B00005UJAM (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuesdays-Morrie-DVD-Jack-Lemmon/dp/B00005UJAM)
- Mitch Albom's interview on Oprah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qjephwogUU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qjephwogUU)
- Morrie Schwartz interview with Ted Koppel on Nightline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBaYzwB86Q8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBaYzwB86Q8)
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If you’d love to keep writing with me beyond this episode, I’d love to invite you into The Writing Shed Club. It’s an online writing community for women, and inside you will find: daily prompts, monthly writing themes, printable tools, mini-lessons, live writing circles, weekly co-writing time and more.
Come and write with us here 👇🏻
https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/ (https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/)
22 Mar 2026
Step into the Writing Shed...
Welcome to "In the Writing Shed with Dani Pescuma": a cosy, creative space for women who feel the quiet pull toward storytelling, but aren't sure yet if they're "allowed" to call themselves writers.
Every Tuesday, I'll open a door for you. Sometimes we'll talk about finding your voice - the one underneath all the noise and the self-doubt. Sometimes we'll explore the extraordinary power of letters, and the lives they carry across time. And sometimes we'll simply slow down enough to notice the magic that's already in your everyday life, and turn it into a story.
This isn't a writing course. There's no pressure to be perfect, no plot outlines to fill in, and no experience required. All you need is a little curiosity and the tiniest spark of imagination.
I'm Dani Pescuma, writer, mentor, and MA in Creative Writing, and I'm recording this from a real shed at the bottom of my garden, which has somehow become the warmest, most creative corner of my world.
Your seat is already saved. 🤗
Step into the Shed. Grab a cuppa. Settle down. Let's begin.
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If you’d love to keep writing with me beyond this episode, I’d love to invite you into The Writing Shed Club. It’s an online writing community for women, and inside you will find: daily prompts, monthly writing themes, printable tools, mini-lessons, live writing circles, weekly co-writing time and more.
Come and write with us here 👇🏻
https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/ (https://danielapescuma.com/step-into-my-world/)
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