Hannah Kent & Rebecca Starford – So You Want To Write with Hannah Kent and Rebecca Starford

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

Learn how to begin and maintain a focused creative writing practice

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.

Purchase Hannah Kent & Rebecca Starford – So You Want To Write with Hannah Kent and Rebecca Starford courses at here with PRICE $149 $40

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Hannah Kent & Rebecca Starford – So You Want To Write with Hannah Kent and Rebecca Starford

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

Learn how to begin and maintain a focused creative writing practice

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.”

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Your Instructor

Hannah Kent & Rebecca Starford

Hannah Kent is the co-founder and publishing director of Kill Your Darlings. Her debut novel, Burial Rites (2013), has been translated into thirty languages and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Stella Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, amongst others. Hannah’s second novel, The Good People (2016) was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Queensland Literary Awards and the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. It is being adapted for film by Aquarius Productions.

Rebecca Starford is the co-founder and publishing director of Kill Your Darlings. Her debut memoir, Bad Behaviour (Allen & Unwin), was published in 2015 and is currently in development with Matchbox Pictures. Rebecca is a former editor at Text Publishing, and has worked for Affirm Press and Australian Book Review. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Age, and Weekend Australian. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland and is currently working on her second book.

Course Curriculum

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

Welcome!

Meet Your Teachers: Hannah Kent (0:22)

Meet Your Teachers: Rebecca Starford (0:16)

Exploring the Difficulties You Encounter with Your Writing

Introduction (0:17)

Suggested Exercise: What Prevents You From Writing?

Your Teachers: Why We Write and What Stops Us From Writing

The Things That Stop Us From Writing

Your Teachers: Difficulties and Inhibitors

Personal and Practical Inhibitors

Your Teachers: Personal or Practical Inhibitors

Suggested Exercise: How to Manage Personal and Practical Inhibitors

Personal Inhibitors

You Are Not Alone

Your Teachers: Managing Personal Inhibitors

Eight Suggestions for a Healthy Relationship to Writing

Procrastination, Self-Doubt and Creativity

Introduction (0:36)

Suggested Exercise: The Best Thing You’ve Ever Written

Don’t Worry

Suggested Exercise: The Worst Thing You’ve Ever Written

When Are You Most Inclined to Write Well?

Your Teachers: On Deadlines

Suggested Exercise: Harnessing the Unconscious

Encouraging Creativity

Suggested Exercise: Three Objects

Your Teachers: How Do You Encourage Your Creativity?

The Importance of Reading

The Importance of Daydreaming

Creativity Triggers

The Dark Force of Procrastination

Ways to Counter Procrastination

When Your Writing is Growing Stale

Motivation, Discipline and Developing a Healthy Writing Practice

Introduction (0:15)

Developing a Routine

Your Teachers: Our Writing Routines

Suggested Exercise: Plan a Routine

Your Teachers: Benefits of Keeping a Routine

Read All About It

The Importance of Re-Writing

Your Teachers: On Re-Writing

Suggested Exercise: Re-Writing

Perseverance, Not Perfectionism

The Importance of Patience

Your Teachers: Consider Your Willpower

Monitor Your Progress

Suggested Exercise: Write Down Your Goals

Some Final Things to Remember

Feedback

Thank you

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