The Scriptorium
A year-round writing membership to develop your writing ritual, deepen your skillset, and build a writing community committed to the long path of craft over convenience.
Weekly prompts | Twice-monthly gatherings | Rotating accountability partners | Ongoing connection
Led by Dr. Melissa Delizia
Devotion
Sacred Practice
Craft
Creative Comradery
Devotion Sacred Practice Craft Creative Comradery
In medieval monasteries, the scriptorium was a space where scribes devoted themselves to the patient work of writing and preservation. The Scriptorium membership is an ongoing space for anyone who wants to develop that same devotion to their writing - not as something to visit when inspiration strikes, but as a practice to return to, again and again, because it feeds your soul.
This isn't about churning out content or finding shortcuts. It's about the longer path, the one where you build real skill, discover your voice, and learn to trust what emerges when you show up to the page. It's about honoring the craft of writing in a world increasingly tempted by easier routes.
Whether you're working on a memoir, exploring poetry, drafting fiction, or simply trying to capture what it feels like to be alive right now, The Scriptorium offers the structure, skill-building, and community that can sustain your writing practice for a lifetime.
What’s Inside
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Weekly writing prompts
Every week, a new prompt arrives in your inbox and Telegram. Some will invite you to explore your stories and memories. Others will explore techniques like point of view, dialogue, pacing, imagery, and voice. Whether you follow them exactly or let them spark something unexpected, they keep you returning to your practice.
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monthly writing circle
We gather once monthly for focused writing time. Melissa offers a prompt, and we write together in companionable focus. Then we share what emerged, not for critique but for witness.
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monthly sharing circle
We gather once monthly for communal, creatively inspiring share-time. Bring a piece you've been working on, read it aloud, and gain compassionate feedback that helps unlock new ideas, new formats, and new ways of seeing your own work.
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accountability partners
Each month, you're paired with a fellow member, or member group. Check in, share goals, exchange work, offer encouragement. The pairings rotate regularly so you receive different perspectives and feedback styles.
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Private telegram community
Between gatherings, the Telegram thread becomes your writing sanctuary. Share breakthroughs, post drafts, ask craft questions, celebrate finished pieces, or simply show up when you need to remember that writing is both solitary and communal.
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monthly writing newsletter
Curated craft resources, reading recommendations, member spotlights, and reflections on the writing life. Consider it creative fuel and gentle accountability delivered straight to your inbox.
The Longer Path
The Scriptorium is for those who know that building the skill of writing matters. Not just for creative expression, but for everything writing touches: the ability to process your experiences, understand yourself more clearly, communicate across differences, share stories that matter, make meaning, build connections, and affect change.
The longer path means building real skill over time, through showing up again and again for a practice that will serve you across your lifetime. It's choosing depth over speed, soul-deep enrichment over efficiency, the work of truly meeting the world through words. The longer path also honors that a practice must look different in different seasons. Devotion must flow with the times for it to withstand life, change, grief, and death.
The Scriptorium supports both truths: the commitment to building lasting skill, and the grace to let your practice breathe with you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequently Asked Questions
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This is for you if you…
Want to develop real writing skill, not just dabble
Crave community around your creative practice
Know that writing feeds your soul in particular, important ways
Need structure without rigidity
Want to honor the longer, more rewarding path
Believe in the value of making art with your own hands and heart
Long for witnesses who understand what you're building
Are ready to come home to your practice
You might be wondering…
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Any kind of personal writing practice. Memoir, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, experimental forms, or whatever else calls to you. These prompts and community are designed to meet you where you are, and support your unique project and voice.
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Not at all. This space is open to anyone who wants to write, or does write, as a long-term practice. You don't even need to call yourself a writer to be here. You just need the willingness to show up to the page and share your work with compassionate witnesses.
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Each month will follow the same cadence to support you in falling into a consistent writing rhythm.
Writing prompts are delivered on Mondays via email + Telegram. Newsletters are delivered on the 4th of each month.
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This is an evolving aspect of The Scriptorium, dependent on the interest and investment of the members at any given time. Some seasons will suit one on one pairings, while others require larger group pairings. You will receive instructions after joining that reflect the current system, and can always reach out to us directly with more specific questions.
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The gatherings won't be recorded (to protect vulnerability and privacy), but you'll still receive all prompts, community access, accountability partnerships, and the newsletter. We’d love for you to experience the beauty and skill progression the live gatherings offer, and hope you can attend as many as possible - but it is not required for you to attend them all.
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This membership is month-to-month and you can cancel anytime. There's no long-term contract or commitment required. While the work of building a writing practice does benefit from consistency over time, we also understand that life happens. Some months you'll be fully engaged, others less so. You can join, take what you need, step away to live your practice, and come back whenever you're ready.
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Prompts come via email too, so yes. But Telegram is where daily community connection will happen - it's worth downloading the app if you want the full experience of the membership.
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Grief Cabaret is about excavating and exploring grief through creativity. The Scriptorium is about the craft and practice of writing itself - building the skill, developing your voice, and sustaining a writing ritual over time. If you loved Grief Cabaret's Year 1 and want more focus on the act of writing, this is for you.
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Storytelling Grief is a 6-week intensive focused on working on a specific legacy project. The Scriptorium is ongoing, designed to support your long-term writing practice across whatever projects you're working on. Think of it as a home base for your writing life, not a sprint for one piece.
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Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort
We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits, because it takes one to know one.