Successful Muse’s Alternative Writing
Workshop and Retreat
check back soon for upcoming dates!
Until you get to “THE END,” writing is full of starts, stops and slow downs. How you respond to these is critical to your piece, your progress and your writing career.
Successful Muse’s Alternative Writing Workshop & Retreat teaches you how to respond to these stops and starts effectively, sensibly and compassionately. No more ‘beating your self up’. Learn to replace the self criticism with encouragement and self-directed support for your own creative process. Leave the days of being demanding, judgmental, desperate or pessimistic about your writing or your future behind.
It’s true: you can develop a different way, a different ‘process.’
At Successful Muse’s Alternative Workshop and Retreat, I’ll show you how.
And you’ll be able to:
- write more often,
- write with fewer blocks (or none at all),
- enjoy the writing process more and
- handle difficult feelings more effectively.
If it’s time to remove the tailspins from your writing experience and practice a healthy and productive relationship with your writing, this workshop will help get you there. Take a deep dive into a different approach to your writing, sitting by the tranquil shore, surrounded by supportive fellow writers and a dedicated writing coach!
Immerse yourself in your writing while you get support and new ideas to break through blocks and stuck spots. You’ll have plenty of private time to write. And breaks from writing will include:
- Yoga, walking, swimming,
- Group time to discuss writing and other challenges,
- Feedback on your writing – if desired,
- Individual consultation time with writing coach
- Supportive fellow writers,
- Fun, food and laughs.
Experience:
- Support and encouragement,
- A criticism – free zone,
- Lack of pressure,
- Challenge to help you grow
- New approaches that make the writing process easier, more appealing and more productive.
- Practice time to absorb ideas right then and there
Learn:
- To understand and emerge from writing blocks
- About your own writing patterns – and to respect them (they’re not bad)
- How to create an internal ‘criticism-free zone’
- How to ‘warm up,’ keep going, understand stops and starts
- the difference between discipline and severity
- When it’s a block and when it’s just time to take a break
- How to enhance your sense of flow.
This workshop/retreat is for all writers, published or not, who work in all genres and who want to take their writing further and learn ways to challenge the myths that writers must suffer through their work and be hard on themselves.
Please bring your own: lunch (or money to buy it), water, sunscreen, beach chair, beach umbrella and yoga mat if you wish to do yoga. Bring your own laptop or notebook and whatever else you need to be comfortable and healthy. There is a convenient array of local places to buy lunch, water and delicious frozen yogurt.
NO Raindate for the upcoming dates. Indoor office in case of rain.
Cost for the day: $ 149.00.
For further information or to sign up, contact Marcia Weiss @ 617.817.4302 (cell)
The Successful Muse, 705 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141 617.817.4302 (cell)