From generating ideas to developing a sustainable writing routine while telling your inner critic to get lost.

An interactive and practical creative writing workshop on how to generate and explore ideas through writing prompts, how to develop and sustain a regular writing routine, which will include a brief discussion on possible barriers, and practical tips on how to deal with your inner critic.

What you will take away from this workshop:

An idea for a creative writing project.

Feeling ready and excited to write regularly.

Happily tell your inner critic to be quiet so you can get those words down.

Permission to write and call yourself a writer (the louder the better!).

About the speaker:

Veronique Kootstra is a writer and workshop facilitator, and she runs the monthly Writers’ HQ Retreat at Tribe Porty. She is from the Netherlands but for the past twenty-three years has lived and worked in Edinburgh. English is now the language she writes and, weirdly, dreams in. Her work has appeared in 404 Ink magazine, Mycelia, The London Reader, The Scotsman and in various anthologies and websites. She won a highly commended writing award from the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award. She is currently working on a novel and after a few false starts, she’s determined to finish it this year. When she’s not writing you can usually find her in the cinema.

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