Finding Confidence and Motivation in Your Writing

Do you suffer from imposter syndrome? Have trouble dealing with distractions? Is your internal editor shooting you down and getting on your nerves?

In this one-hour presentation, I’ll offer you tips and tools for maintaining your confidence in every stage of the process, from drafting to reimagination, revision, and submission. We’ll discuss how confidence in the practice can lift up your craft and prepare you to take big chances in your story. We will also think about how motivation links to your story’s theme and helps you tap into your personal writing sandbox.

At the end of the session, there will be time for questions and discussion as well as tools to take home and explore what happens when you decide to write with gusto!

Writing doesn’t have to be painful. Let’s discover your writing confidence together.

About the Instructor: Sarah Aronson

Sarah Aronson began writing in 2000, when someone in an exercise class dared her to try. Since then, she has earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has published several novels for children and young adults, including: Head Case, Beyond Lucky, and Believe, and the chapter book series, The Worst Fairy Godmother Ever. She is also the author of the picture books Just like Rube Goldberg, Brand New Bubbe, and the newly released, Abzuglutely!: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug.

Sarah is the co-founder and director of Writing Novels for Young People Retreat at VCFA and teaches whenever she can for the Highlights Foundation. She reviews novels for Jewish Book World. Her mantras are “Try everything,” and “Celebrate Every Milestone,” for both her classes and writing.