For some, summer is a time to dial back and relax. For others, it's a time with fewer
responsibilities and an opportunity to get into gear. For those who hope July and August
will see progress on a long-delayed, incomplete or never-started writing project, Marcia
Yudkin's "Complete Your Writing Projects" course is a godsend. Via telephone conference
calls and email throughout June, it teaches how to combine discipline and inspiration to get
pages and pages (and more pages!) of writing piling up (www.yudkin.com/complete.htm ).
"People think that in order to get a lot of writing done, you have to write fast," says author
and creativity expert Marcia Yudkin, who has published 11 books, thousands of articles
and close to a dozen multimedia courses. "It's not true. I'm a tortoise when it comes to
writing and rarely write more than three pages a day. However, if you learn to harness your
creativity and make the very most of your writing time, you can pile up completed writing
projects month after month."
Yudkin's four-session teleseminar and email course, which holds its first meeting on June
1, presents perspectives and techniques that transform participants' relationship to the
writing process, such as:
* Which commonly held beliefs and expectations about writing are surprisingly untrue -
and why
* The never-fail secret for resuming work or getting started on a long-stalled writing
project
* Five ways to get lots of writing done in spare chunks of time as brief as three minutes
* How to disconnect from negative influences of the past, like a critical parent or
third-grade teacher, along with ways to scoot around practical obstacles involving space,
time or opportunity
* Your unique creative triggers and how to get them working in your favor
Between the 60-75 minute telephone teaching sessions, participants receive motivational
and informative booster messages and optionally, exchange experiences with a “writing
buddy” who is also taking the course. By the end of June, participants have better focus
and enjoy more pleasure and less pain when it comes to writing.
"For many people, greater productivity translates into lower life stress and higher earnings,"
notes instructor Marcia Yudkin.
Originally developed for Radcliffe Career Services (part of Harvard University), its
techniques have also helped non-academic writers working on everything from business
proposals and web copy to magazine articles, novels and non-fiction books. The basic
course costs $197, with a limited-enrollment $497 deluxe version that includes a consulting
session with Yudkin and a related set of studio-recorded audio CDs.
For more information or to enroll, go to http://www.yudkin.com/complete.htm or call
1-800-333-8376.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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