Word Grit – Writings by Chip Von Gunten

Hi. My name is Chip. I’m writing a book.

This isn’t the book.

This is where the work happens before the world sees it.

This is the place where the book is being built—slowly, honestly, without filters or pretty lies. Word Grit is a working title. Word Grit is the workshop, the smoke, the clatter, and the late-night hum.

If you’re here, you’re close to the heat, but not close enough to get the pages. The book stays locked until the moment it’s ready. What you get here is the atmosphere—the sparks that fly off the blade because it’s being sharpened.

Word Grit is a philosophy first, a book second, and a signal third. It’s built from street-earned truth, the kind you only learn by losing your footing and getting back up anyway. Nothing polished will live here. Nothing soft. Just the pulse of something coming together in real time, one word at a time, behind a cracked warehouse door.

However, if you’d like to follow along…..

The Workbench

This is where you’ll find the notes from the trenches. Not chapters—but the sweat around them >>> here.

Reflections on the process, the grind, the ghosts, and the noise. This is the making of a thing that’s trying to mean something. Entries…too small to be a chapter, too alive to keep in a pocket. Progress logs. Not pretty. Not curated. Just the truth about where the manuscript stands, how the days feel, and what’s shifting under the surface as the work grows sharper, meaner, more honest. This isn’t the book; they’re echoes from the room where the book is being written.

Again, if you want to follow along, go >>> here.

The book is coming soon.

Not in the marketing sense. In the real-world, actual-pages-are-forming sense.

If you want to know the moment it hits the world, drop your email below. You’ll get one message: the announcement. Nothing else. No drip campaigns, no dancing emojis, no “last chance” nonsense. Just a signal when the book is real.

Join the waitlist:

Go back to my website, and drop me your email. I’ll let you know when the book is alive.