Breakthrough! Making Writer’s Block Your Friend

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Frustrated with the blank page? Stuck in a scene or book with no solution in sight? What if your block is actually the way in?

Writer’s block can be a haunting, terrifying force, causing us to spin your wheels and feel like we’re going nowhere. But what if writer’s block is actually a source of power? What if, by paying attention to its qualities and inquiring into its hidden gifts, we can release that power into our work?

What if the block contains the gift?

This informal, fun presentation will help normalize writer’s block as part of the creative process, and give you tools to turn that frustrating feeling of “I can’t” into joy and delight as you return to the page.

In this webinar you will…

• CULTIVATE a relationship with your writing
• IDENTIFY various types of writer’s block
• LEARN to dialogue with your blocks
• EMBRACE discomfort
• UNDERSTAND the illusion of perfectionism and procrastination
• RECOGNIZE the power of gratitude, kindness, and trust in the writing process 

This webinar is ideal for writers struggling with writer’s block, especially:

• perfectionists
• procrastinators
• harsh self-critics
• writers who constantly start exciting projects but don’t finish
• writers struggling with the idea of writing vs the reality of writing

Closed captioning is available ✔
All registrants receive the recording ✔

YOUR PRESENTER

Laraine Herring’s memoir, A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens, was released in 2021 from Regal House. She’s the editor of the anthology Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined through Speculative Nonfiction (Pact Press, 2024), and a trilogy of writing books from Shambhala, including Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice. 

She’s a retired professor of creative writing and psychology, and has worked with writers for thirty years. She’s also an illustrator and a grief counselor, and creator of The Grief Forest: a book about what we don’t talk about. She founded the online ‘zine Hags on Fire, a place for women to share stories about menopause, and co-designed The Imaginal Memoir Cave immersion program with Gayle Brandeis. She works as a book coach for women over 40, focusing on helping women find the heart of their stories. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Tiferet, The Rumpus, The Manifest-Station, The Arizona Republic, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology, and lives in the mountains of northern Arizona with many cats.

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