Hannah Kent & Rebecca Starford – So You Want To Write? – Hannah Kent and Rebecca Starford (Kill Your Darlings 2020)
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.
“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 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
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Welcome!
- Meet Your Teachers: Hannah Kent (0:22)
- Meet Your Teachers: Rebecca Starford (0:16)
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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
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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
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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
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