![]() ![]() I’m a devoted follower of the AWA method and the way that safe and supportive space for newly developed pieces can help us believe in our ability as writers when our inner critic voices are being as mean as they possibly can to persuade us NOT to make ourselves vulnerable on the page. I’m a huge believer in prompted writing in safe space to push us in directions we’d never think of going in if it weren’t for those prompts. Over the pandemic I and many of my writing friends have participated in Emily Stoddard’s marvelous Hummingbird Writing Session’s and Vicki Pinkerton’s inspiring Pot-of-Gold pop-up writing sessions – just 15 minutes of generative writing time – no feedback, just something to kick off pens (or fingers) and GO! But the pieces are short – poems and short flash prose pieces. The only time I do any writing for myself over these last few months has been in workshops - and I have generated new work that I’m very happy about. My non-business hours are filled with reading for my clients and workshop participants. #Inkslinger meaning fullOnce I switched my writing workshops, manuscript mentoring and my therapy practice to online, my business hours swelled full to bursting with appointments. I’ve been incredibly busy over these Covid months. These days that’s true for me too, unfortunately. Often people in my Sanctuaries and workshops say that the only time they actually write is when they’re in a writing group with me and others. Read on to see how this is going to work. _ Original post: For at least the first three months of 2021, I’m trying an experiment to make myself accountable to my big writing projects. And because of that, I’m continuing PJ writing to the end of 2021, and it’s morphed to EVERY weekday morning at 7:30 and a few Tuesday evenings.Ĭlick the Events Calendar here to register ![]() ( See some testimonials here.) That includes me – I’m a long way into the second draft of my novel thanks to those productive silent hours in writing community every week. Writers have found it incredibly useful in getting their work done. – Pyjama Writing has continued every month since then. Update: The article below was originally posted just prior to New Years – the beginning of 2021 ![]()
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