Improve Your Relationship with Writing with Laia Jufresa

Writing and you are old friends. So old that you often take each other for granted. Or maybe you fancied writing for years before timidly approaching it. Or perhaps you have torrid affairs with it every once in a while, usually right before a deadline, but then you ghost it for months on end.

If you stop and think about it, you probably want this relationship to be a life-long one. But when was the last time you took time to take proper care of it? To even consider it?

We expect our writing to improve as the years go by, and we assume that we ourselves evolve. Wouldn’t it follow logically that the relationship too will change? Yet some of us are still approaching writing in the same dysfunctional ways we always have. Or we’re trying to, but the old methods are no longer yielding the same amount of fruit as they used to. How can we improve that?

All relationships need tending to and your relationship with writing is no exception. It will need different things depending on the stage of your life or the stage of a project.

This course is an invitation to spend a weekend with your writing. Not using it or doubting it or chastising it, but listening to it. Checking in.

What’s happening with your writing right now? What does it really need and what does it really crave? Have you maybe set unrealistic expectations for it? Is it perhaps exploiting you? How can you better meet each other’s needs and desires?
During these sessions I will guide you through a set of exercises and experiments to unearth, and then shift, whatever may be nagging, blocking, or simply no longer serving you two, as the pair of collaborators you’re meant to be.

More importantly: you will leave with the tools needed to do this over and over again, whenever time comes to check-in with your writing. Just like you do with all your other loved ones.

Course Outline

• Day 1
  • The Other
    • What do we talk about when we talk about a relationship with writing
    • Desire and expectations
    • Redefining quality time
  • Next of Kin
    • Demons and critics
    • Under pressure
• Day 2
  • Just the Two of You
    • Death by comparison
    • Reciprocity
  • Going Forward
    • Actualisation
    • Muses and allies
    • Vows

Capacity: 20