So You Want To Write? with Hannah Kent and Rebecca Starford

Course Description

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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.”

Course Curriculum

Welcome!
StartWelcome!
StartMeet Your Teachers: Hannah Kent (0:22)
StartMeet Your Teachers: Rebecca Starford (0:16)
Exploring the Difficulties You Encounter with Your Writing
StartIntroduction (0:17)
StartSuggested Exercise: What Prevents You From Writing?
StartYour Teachers: Why We Write and What Stops Us From Writing
StartThe Things That Stop Us From Writing
StartYour Teachers: Difficulties and Inhibitors
StartPersonal and Practical Inhibitors
StartYour Teachers: Personal or Practical Inhibitors
StartSuggested Exercise: How to Manage Personal and Practical Inhibitors
StartPersonal Inhibitors
StartYou Are Not Alone
StartYour Teachers: Managing Personal Inhibitors
StartEight Suggestions for a Healthy Relationship to Writing
Procrastination, Self-Doubt and Creativity
StartIntroduction (0:36)
StartSuggested Exercise: The Best Thing You’ve Ever Written
StartDon’t Worry
StartSuggested Exercise: The Worst Thing You’ve Ever Written
StartWhen Are You Most Inclined to Write Well?
StartYour Teachers: On Deadlines
StartSuggested Exercise: Harnessing the Unconscious
StartEncouraging Creativity
StartSuggested Exercise: Three Objects
StartYour Teachers: How Do You Encourage Your Creativity?
StartThe Importance of Reading
StartThe Importance of Daydreaming
StartCreativity Triggers
StartThe Dark Force of Procrastination
StartWays to Counter Procrastination
StartWhen Your Writing is Growing Stale