Welcome to Just Write Mama
I’m glad you’re here.
I’m Breeann Adam, creator of Just Write Mama. I write imperfect stories that are just right for imperfect people.
I hope the Just Write Mama community authentically celebrates and shares imperfect stories of motherhood, parenting kids from all walks of life, foster care, adoption, creativity, and the little moments and details that make up the composition of our lives. I hope to interact with you, the reader, too. Show up in my email, comments, DMs, all of it. I want to hear your thoughts!
The name “Just Write Mama” has a couple meanings. I want to remind myself more than anything that writing doesn’t have to be overly serious or immaculate to be out in the world. I tend to be an overthinker and even though my college English degree happened a long time ago, “just writing” is still hard for me most days. I want to lean in to showing up, as I am, in this season. On the note of perfectionism, I wanted a name that conveyed that we are all just right, just as we are. We don’t need to wait for some futuristic ideal self to appear to be on the correct side of our own lives or potential, but we are exactly where we need to be as is (this is a belief I am striving to manifest, not a value I have mastered).
That’s Just Write Mama. But who am I? “About” and “bio” sections are overwhelming to me because, really, how do I summarize . . . myself? Without sounding like a cover letter, resume, or an oversimplified collection of shallow sound bites? I don’t know actually. I’m a mom to many through foster care, adoption, and biology. I’m married to the best man I have ever met. I’m a special education teacher. I’m a writer. I am an introvert. I like coffee, sleeping in late, reading, listening to others, working out, floating down the Clark Fork river in an inner tube in late July, and giving and receiving handwritten thank you notes. I am embarrassingly terrible with directional and navigational skills. I struggle with decision analysis paralysis and stubborn hard-headedness. I have never met a sweet food I didn’t like. After multiple decades on this Earth, I know there’s more that’s true about a person. But, like I said, what do you include in a summary of a life?
Posting regularly is what I want to commit to - okay, great, but what does “regularly” mean? I’m not sure yet, and I think it’s best to be transparent about that at this point. Right now, all content will be free of cost to all subscribers. Something cool about Substack is that readers can support writers’ work by subscribing to their content for a few bucks a month, if the writer elects to use that feature. I might choose to do that in the future, but for now, it’s all free.
Most importantly, I love writing and I always have. Just Write Mama was born out of a need to stretch my writer’s wings beyond the habits and algorithms of other social media platforms and explore a new space. Therefore, here I am.
Thanks for showing up, and I hope to chat with you soon!
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