What does permission look like for you? Have you given yourself permission to write about things your community has rules about keeping quiet? Permission can look like your random, creative side stretching and trying new things or “stealing” what you’ve seen other writers do in order to practice and improve your own writing. It can also look like putting the words you truly want to say on the page and building around that foundation. When it comes to possibility, surrendering to a loss of control over parts of your writing process, where that writing goes, or even how the story is communicated can open up doors to the new and unexpected. Guides can provide new paths to explore, ideas to contemplate, and expand our own notions of what is possible on the page; those same guides can provide access to permission. If someone else has written freely and with abandon, created new forms, or told a story in a way you’ve never seen before, you can too!