I'm thrilled to share an interview I did with the team at Writing Workshops on my upcoming workshop "Introducing the Power of Hope to Our Writing Process." You can find that here, where you can register as well. Please feel free to check out the below excerpt, please do register, and please let me know know if you have any questions. Cool? Excellent.
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Writing Workshops: What made you want to teach this specific class? Is it something you are focusing on in your own writing practice? Have you noticed a need to focus on this element of craft?
Ben Tanzer: Throughout my work and writing life I've always been fascinated by how we become stuck in pursuit of our goals or our writing process and how one might disentangle that. Last year, I was invited to pitch a workshop to a writer's conference here in Chicago and I suggested something focused on getting unstuck. It was accepted, which was great, and then I had to actually create a workshop. Shortly thereafter, I attended a session at a professional institute a client of mine was hosting about the science of hope with Dr. Chan Hellman, and as he spoke about how "wishing is not a strategy" and hope can be a practice, his words hit me like a thunderbolt, it was just so interesting and felt so profound to me, and I knew I'd stumbled into a framework I wanted to work with and build on for this workshop.