The Write Habit
A Workshop for Establishing and Maintaining Your Writing Productivity
WORKSHOP TITLE: The Write Habit: A Workshop for Establishing & Maintaining Your Writing Productivity
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Did you know that if you wrote just 30 minutes a day, every day, within one year you could have written 10 articles or a book? Writers are expected to write productively and publish prolifically. Yet, few of us have ever been taught how to establish and maintain the “write” habit. How can we help ourselves to become less stressed, more productive, and better writers? Which instructional strategies can help us to improve our writing?
In this workshop, participants will become familiar with strategies for helping themselves establish a regular and productive writing habit. This interactive session is designed to inspire, motivate, and provide techniques that can be applied immediately to one’s writing life.
In The Write Habit, you’ll experience:
Time spent recharging your writing battery
A friendly learning environment designed to help you rekindle your creative spark
An atmosphere that emphasizes creative recovery
The joy and benefits of taking time for yourself to focus on you and your writerly needs
In The Write Habit, you’ll learn:
Eleven principles for getting power over yourself and your writing process
One right “write” brain activity designed to bring the muse to you
The one word that 90% of the time can be edited out of your text
A writing technique designed specifically to make you nine times more productive
The key process for keeping track of all of the literature you’re reviewing
One foolproof exercise for silencing your inner critic
The quickest way to move from “I don’t want to write today” to “I’m in my ‘write’ frame of mind today.”
Plus, you’ll learn:
About a host of books, websites, materials, and resources (60+) to help you get in touch (and stay in touch!) with your inner writing mentor
One technique for making your editing fun (yes, you read that correctly fun!)
An easy, relaxing approach to help you kick your writing projects out the door