Jan 26 2020
Overcoming Perfectionism: How to Use Your Writing Process to Finish that Draft with Michelle Niemann

Overcoming Perfectionism: How to Use Your Writing Process to Finish that Draft with Michelle Niemann

Presented by Indiana Writers Center at Indiana Writers Center

Instructor: Michelle Niemann

Does perfectionism slow your writing process down? Do you find yourself tweaking the same paragraph or section over and over—and then discovering that in fact you need to jettison it entirely? Do you have a draft of an essay, memoir, or novel that you’ve worked and reworked so much that you don’t know how to tell when it’s finished?

In this class, we’ll discuss and try out some concrete strategies for breaking out of perfectionistic habits. The writing process is always messy—this class doesn’t offer any false shortcuts. Instead, we’ll develop practices that draw on the messiness of the process itself to finally complete that draft.

While I’ll share what I’ve learned from years of working with writers one-on-one, these practices and strategies always need to be tailored to the individual writer’s process. So, as a participant, you’ll be asked to share what you love and hate about your writing process—and to bring at least part of that recalcitrant draft so that you can experiment with it during our class.

Admission Info

$75 Nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members

Phone: 3172550710

Email: mail@indianawriters.org

Dates & Times

2020/01/26 - 2020/01/26

Location Info

Indiana Writers Center

1125 Brookside Avenue, Suite B25, Indianapolis, IN 46202

Parking Info

Parking is located behind the Indiana Art Center in Broad Ripple. The Indiana Writers Center is in the smaller building behind the IAC, not the main building.