So You Want To Write? with Hannah Kent and Rebecca Starford
This workshop is designed for those who wish to write seriously, but may be having difficulties in beginning or maintaining a focused creative writing practice.
‘So You Want To Write’ is a workshop designed to instil confidence in writers and to give them a renewed understanding of what is required to begin, continue or complete a writing project. Participants will come away with strategies to manage tendencies towards procrastination and self-doubt, and suggestions to assist and encourage creativity.
Through a series of dynamic writing exercises and key insights into the creative practice, this workshop will assist you in developing techniques to keep you motivated, disciplined in the lonely hours at your desk, and able to maintain a healthy and productive relationship with your writing.
The course is designed to take you 4-5 hours to complete, but can be accomplished in short stages, or at your convenience.
Scroll down to see the full course curriculum and a list of frequently asked questions.
“Informative, accessible and enjoyable, this course provided me with tools and reassurance to alleviate self-doubt, and the motivation and inspiration to get through the first draft of my new novel.“
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Course Curriculum
- Welcome!
- Meet Your Teachers: Hannah Kent (0:22)
- Meet Your Teachers: Rebecca Starford (0:16)
- Introduction (0:17)
- Suggested Exercise: What Prevents You From Writing?
- Your Teachers: Why We Write and What Stops Us From Writing
- The Things That Stop Us From Writing
- Your Teachers: Difficulties and Inhibitors
- Personal and Practical Inhibitors
- Your Teachers: Personal or Practical Inhibitors
- Suggested Exercise: How to Manage Personal and Practical Inhibitors
- Personal Inhibitors
- You Are Not Alone
- Your Teachers: Managing Personal Inhibitors
- Eight Suggestions for a Healthy Relationship to Writing
- Introduction (0:36)
- Suggested Exercise: The Best Thing You’ve Ever Written
- Don’t Worry
- Suggested Exercise: The Worst Thing You’ve Ever Written
- When Are You Most Inclined to Write Well?
- Your Teachers: On Deadlines
- Suggested Exercise: Harnessing the Unconscious
- Encouraging Creativity
- Suggested Exercise: Three Objects
- Your Teachers: How Do You Encourage Your Creativity?
- The Importance of Reading
- The Importance of Daydreaming
- Creativity Triggers
- The Dark Force of Procrastination
- Ways to Counter Procrastination
- When Your Writing is Growing Stale
- Introduction (0:15)
- Developing a Routine
- Your Teachers: Our Writing Routines
- Suggested Exercise: Plan a Routine
- Your Teachers: Benefits of Keeping a Routine
- Read All About It
- The Importance of Re-Writing
- Your Teachers: On Re-Writing
- Suggested Exercise: Re-Writing
- Perseverance, Not Perfectionism
- The Importance of Patience
- Your Teachers: Consider Your Willpower
- Monitor Your Progress
- Suggested Exercise: Write Down Your Goals
- Some Final Things to Remember
- Thank you
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