This is What a Writer Looks Like: Developing the Mindset to Start and Finish your Manuscript
An online course
Often the thing that holds creatives back from writing a novel, a memoir, a self-help guide, or a collection of poems is not coming up with the idea. Ideas are the easy part. Where most people struggle is the execution of the idea.
This is where having a creative mindset comes into play. A creative mindset allows a writer to not only develop the idea, but to create actionable steps, set reasonable goals, give themselves permission to be creative.
Developing a creative mindset will help you not only start your project but give yourself the necessary endurance to finish a project.
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Identifying Common Blocks
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Turning on the Creativity Tap
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Organizing your time, space, and materials
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Finding your writing community
This is What a Writer Looks Like: Developing the Mindset to Finish Your Manuscript
$50.00 or 3 Plans Available
Upcoming In-Person Workshops
Sat. Sept 21 from 2 pm to 4 pm
East Cobb County Public Library
4880 Lower Roswell Rd suite 510-B, Marietta, GA 30068
Are you a young writer? Or are you frustrated with finding the stories you want to read and are thinking about writing your own? Or are you a member of the Tortured Poets Department who writes poems in their room at midnight?
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Meet other young writers
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Share your work with others
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Write the stories that you want to read
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Learn what the next steps are.
Submit a short story (approx. 2,500 words), the first chapter (or first 25 pages, approx. 7,000 words) of your novel, or a curated collection of at least 5 poems to be workshopped! Please submit as a doc file, double-spaced in 12 point Times New Roman font.
Sat. Oct 12th from 2 pm to 4 pm
East Cobb County Public Library
4880 Lower Roswell Rd suite 510-B, Marietta, GA 30068
Shirley Jackson is a master of horror and creepy stories that stay with her readers long after they are reading. Join us for an afternoon of discussing this classic creepy book as well as the process of close reading, crafting modern mythology, origin stories, and literature’s creepiest sister duo.
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Meet other book lovers
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Discuss a creepy story
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Learn how to close read a text
Participants are encouraged to bring their own copies of the book, however, library copies will be made available during the class.
Sat. Nov 2 from 2 pm to 4 pm
East Cobb County Public Library
4880 Lower Roswell Rd suite 510-B, Marietta, GA 30068
Join us to discuss what it takes to craft a twisty, sexy, cool detective story.
We will discuss the different elements of the noir, planting red herrings, shaping progressive femme fatales, and developing complex detectives.
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How to structure a mystery plot
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How to give clues without giving away the game
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Meet other mystery writers.
Submit a short story (approx. 2,500 words), or the first chapter (or first 25 pages, approx. 7,000 words) of your novel to be workshopped! Please submit as a doc file, double-spaced in 12 point Times New Roman font.
One-on-One Coaching Packages
If you are looking for a more personalized experience and want to take your writing to the next level with a mentorship relationship, sign up for one of the packages below and receive one-on-one coaching with me!