Writing Without Fear

Are you working on a novel, memoir or non-fiction project? Did you start off with great enthusiasm, only to feel the project bog down? Are you overwhelmed by the complexity of the task? Has anxiety crept into your writing day?

To produce good work, writers must be willing to take risks and to produce writing that fails. This process of exploration often creates anxiety, and often results in the dreaded writer’s block. How do we allow spontaneity and improvisation into our work and still create coherence

How do we craft a writing process that allows risk, but also creates a safety net?

Borrowing from psychology, we will understand the types of anxiety inherent in the writing process, and how to manage them. We will examine working methods from other creative fields — architects, screenwriters, film editors, and radio story tellers — and steal from them.

The goal of this workshop is to create a writing process that works for you, and that allows you to be fearless and productive.