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Virtual: Planning Writing Projects

What writing are you called to do - and why?

In this workshop, Beth Godbee will help writers identify and utilize "the strong yes" to prioritize writing projects, consider their relationship to writing and regain focus when struggles arise.

· What writing feels especially urgent at this time—personally and collectively?

· What writing are you longing to bring forth or to devote time and energy toward?

· How can you make writing a priority without falling into self-doubt, writer’s block, overwhelm, productivity pressures or other things that derail writing?

These questions will drive this interactive 90-minute workshop that involves identifying and using “the strong yes” to prioritize summer writing projects. Together, we’ll use contemplative, body-based practices for grounding and guiding the planning process. After practicing five methods for finding the strong yes, we’ll apply those methods through writing time. We’ll also consider our relationships to writing and what derails us as writers—making plans for how to regain our focus and energy whenever we struggle (as all writers do).

In total, we’ll spend this time feeling and thinking about what writing we’re called to do—and why. And we’ll respond to various pressures that weigh on our writing and ourselves as writers. 

This program is sponsored by the Brown Chair in English Literacy at the University of Arkansas. 
https://fulbright.uark.edu/departments/english/graduate/brown-chair-in-english-literacy/index.php

Registration is required.

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