Write What You NO: Discovering and using what you were taught was forbidden to break through blocks and show readers the way to freedom
DATE: Sat. March 8th, 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern
This workshop is for writers in any stage of their career who feel stuck in their craft, like they can’t tell the stories they know they need to tell and aren’t sure why. Attendees will learn ways to unmask roadblocks to their work and find a sense of freedom to explore topics, emotions, and feelings that have, up until now been “forbidden” to them unconsciously or otherwise. The freedom attendees will find in this workshop will improve their craft by bringing more authenticity and less FOMO/people-pleasing motives to their writing whether prose or verse.
- Find safety and permission to consider who told you “no” in your life and how’s that translated to being stuck with your writing
- Learn tools and exercises to discover and flesh out what you’ve been saying to in your writing
- Practice framing your taboos in ways that enhance your own freedom and steward your readers into freedom themselves
Your Instructor
Megan Wildhood is a neurodiverse writer and editor recovering from Oldest Daughter Syndrome so deep she used to not be able to wear tennis shoes with skirts because she overheard her mother complain about her doing so to a friend. When Megan hit a roadblock she couldn’t resolve by switching writing projects, she did some digging and found a plethora of “rules” her people-pleasing younger self had been contorting herself to follow all her life to earn her emotionally unavailable mother’s love. She connected the rigidity she learned in her youth, all the ways her mother told her “no” via silence, invalidation, and withdrawal of relationship to her fear of telling the truth in her writing and, now that’s broken free of those chains, wants to help other writers find the same freedom. To learn more about her writing and her work, which is informed by her training in the social work field and years of working with freelance clients struggling to find the permission to use their voices, please visit meganwildhood.com
