Building Emotional Endurance as a Writer with Bonnie Friedman

The writer’s life is full of challenges.  Rejection.  Envy.  Perfectionism.  The need to keep faith with one’s work even as it loses its old focus and develops a new one.   Success in writing depends, for most mortals, on possessing a combination of talent and psychological fortitude.  This workshop will focus on how you can cultivate the strength to weather setbacks and to discover, in the struggles, the seeds of new habits that can help you continue forward.

Bonnie Friedman is the author of the bestselling Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life (HarperCollins) currently in its 28th printing, and recently named one of the eleven “Essential Books for Writing” by The Center for Fiction  and one of “The Best Books for Writers” by Poets & Writers.  Her essays have appeared in The Best Writing on Writing, The Best American Movie Writing, The Best Buddhist Writing, and The Best of O., the Oprah Magazine.