Fall Fresh Start! Move Past Obstacles to Achieve Your Writing Goals

Want to commit to your writing but find it hard to stick to a routine? Are you sabotaged by self-doubt? Having trouble separating your critical mind from your creative mind? Struggling to finish long-term writing projects? Do you want to feel more confident in your writing process?

Through gentle, fun exercises, we will explore the roadblocks to writing, examine their root causes, and learn to overcome them. Carol Goodman, author of twenty-seven novels and two-time winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award, will share methods she’s developed over twenty-five years of writing to counteract the most common obstacles to writing. She will explore strategies to adapt those methods to your individual goals and work habits, helping you to set intentions and build a writing practice.

This workshop will help writers at every stage and phase. Come prepared to write!

Carol Goodman is the author of twenty-seven novels, including The Lake of Dead Languages, The Seduction of Water, which won the 2003 Hammett Prize, The Widow’s House, which won the 2018 Mary Higgins Clark Award, and The Night Visitors, which won the 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family and teaches literature and writing at The New School and SUNY New Paltz.