The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers to shift teaching and learning from face-to-face in brick-and-mortar classrooms to online learning platforms. For many teachers, this abrupt change was not an easy transition, particularly when working with students in early childhood who are reading and writing in the early years of literacy development. Yet, using digital tools during writing instruction was not an entirely new concept in education. This article describes a first grade teacher's journey teaching writing to culturally and linguistically diverse young writers through online instruction. Despite the challenges she faced in forging this new experience alone, her shift to online writing instruction demonstrates that a digital writing workshop is both possible and effective with young writers under some conditions. Implications from this study call for professional development that emphasizes process-oriented writing instruction in both face-to-face and online education across grade levels.