Writer's Block FREEDOM | 2nd Session (Jan-Mar 2024)

"Sitting alone in a room and telling yourself stories should always be fun."

Writer's Block FREEDOM

Will help you get back to your writing at the speed and with the joy you want.

SESSION 2 (Jan-Mar 2024)

PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST TAKE SESSION 1 TO TAKE SESSION 2

9 weeks of WORKSHOP Classes
Taught by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Workshops Presented by Dean Wesley Smith

8 Homework ASSIGNMENTS
Turned in weekly to be reviewed and responded to by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch

9 LIVE Weekly WEBINARS
Hosted by Dean Wesley Smith & Stephanie Writt
LIVE Tips, Tricks and Support
(Ask your questions!)
The discussions and interactions at these webinars shine with the support and kindness demonstrated from everyone that attends. And there's usually a lot of laughter. They are a blast and incredible learning experiences!

And INSPIRATIONAL Merch!
You will receive a T-Shirt (or mug), a sticker and full-color 4" x 6" inspirational art cards with the purchase of each session.
The 2nd session will include a choice of designs.
(You will be contacted for size and color and choice shortly after the start of the first session.)

What is Writer's Block FREEDOM?

Writer’s Block Freedom is two, nine-week-long classes to help you through all the different types of“Writer’s Block” you may be experiencing or will experience as time goes along.

Being armed with knowledge will stop “Writer’s Block” from ever knocking you down.

18 weeks of lessons, 16 assignments, 16 hour-long webinars to answer questions and help get your writing up to the speed you want it to be.

“Writer’s Block”: the term is a catch-all phrase to describe writers not being able to write like they want to write with their fiction. Or at the speed they want to write.

In its worst cases,“Writer’s Block” does not allow a writer to produce fiction words at all. In other cases, it stops a writer at a small amount of words per session, or doesn’t allow a writer to finish stories, or mail out stories and on and on.

The problem is that“Writer’s Block” is not just one thing and not just caused by one factor, but by hundreds and hundreds of causes. In putting this class together, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I listed out over fifty forms of writer’s block, some of which she and I have fought through over the decades. Other forms we have only helped writers through.

“Writer’s Block” can kill a writer’s dreams and seemingly have no solution. But there are solutions, some seemingly simpler, others taking months of work to solve.

That’s why we wanted to make sure these two classes had a webinar component to help writers as a group work through what is stopping their writing. All writers think our problems are just our problems, but in reality, “Writer’s Block” has patterns and forms that can be solved.

That is what these two classes are about, helping you get back to your writing at the speed and with the joy you want. Sitting alone in a room and telling yourself stories should always be fun.

Don’t let any form of "Writer's Block" take that fun away.

About Instructor DEAN WESLEY SMITH

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published almost two hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He also wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies.

Learn more about DEAN WELSEY SMITH here

About Instructor KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH

Award-winning, bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has published books under many names and in many genres. Rusch broke a number of barriers in the sf/f field, including being the first female editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, as well as being the only person in history to have won a Hugo Award for both writing and editing. IO9 called her bestselling, award-winning Retrieval Artist novels, inspired by the novella, one of the top ten science fiction detective series ever.

Learn more about KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH here