Class Description
Sure, it’s nice to wear your pee-jays to work, but that hardly makes the writer’s job easy. Writers must contend with daily frustrations, frequent rejections, hurtful comments, loneliness, recurring self-doubts, and crises of faith—not to mention a notable lack of remuneration! It’s no surprise that many writers—even wildly talented, well-schooled ones—drop out of the game somewhere along the way. How to hang in there over a lifetime—and (mostly) enjoy the run—that’s the focus of this 3 hour workshop.
Through structured dialogues and tailored writing exercises, students will have the opportunity to identify those often barely conscious thoughts that impede productivity. We’ll then move onto to sharing our collective wisdom about strategies, tools, tricks, and habits of mind and life that help us tame our egos, build confidence and humility, get us unstuck, and enable us to persist in the marathon that writing is.
To prepare, students might want to look at The 7 Secrets of the Prolific by Grub Street’s own Hillary Rettig.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
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This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.