Gentle Accountability
“It was a collaborative space where everyone had something to contribute. It was great to get different perspectives.”
Starting a creative project is the easy part. There’s an ease in the early drafts, a freedom in getting down those first sketches. But how do you keep working toward completion? What happens when the project has gotten so unwieldy that you don’t even know what part you’re working on?
Gentle accountability is here to help artists finish their projects. This free-one hour session is a place for you to share where you’re at with your project, what you’re stuck on, and what you need to do to keep it moving forward.
You’ll leave with solutions, practical steps (small or large) that you can take, and most of all, a sense of momentum and purpose as you get back to your art.
We’ll meet Tuesday June 10th from 5-6 pm ET.
“I got a lot of tools and direction to begin revisions after living in a no man's land of confusion after finishing my draft.” – Hugo House student
What You’ll Get
Support
You’ll be part of a cohort, and we’re here to help you finish your project.
You’ll meet other artists at similar stages of their work.
You’ll meet other artists facing similar problems, and help each other solve them.
Meeting Structure
Meetings will begin with a check-in to share successes and struggles from your writing process
Then we’ll break into duos to talk through our “problem of the month” and brainstorm solutions
The group will meet again to share anything that came up in those break-out sessions
We’ll close with a quote, concept or writing exercise to inspire you in the coming month
This free session is a pilot for the six-month accountability group I’ll be launching later in June.
Style of Feedback
My facilitating is based on years of leading writing workshops, my mindfulness meditation training, and the work of Matthew Salesses (Craft in the Real World) and Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop.
The goal is to empower the author to verbalize their creative choices and write into them, instead of choosing a path for their project based on what someone else recommends. It also empowers writers to create a system that’s uniquely theirs, fits into their life, and fuels their creativity.
FAQs
What genres can I bring?
This workshop is be open to all genres. This includes: short stories, excerpts from a memoir, a novel, or anything related to querying, as well as poetry in all its forms.