Course Title: Write On! Remedies for the Reluctant Writer
Instructor: Patricia Benesh, Ed '75 (CERT), Ed '77 (Ed.D), Ed '80 (MA), Ed '83 (MA)
Brought to you by Odyssey
October 21, 2025 - November 18, 2025 (5 Sessions)
Tuesday, 5:00PM ET - 6:30PM ET
Virtual via Zoom
Course Description: Based on her workbook, From Reluctant Writer to Enlightened Wordsmith, Patricia Benesh, Ed.D condenses the 14-day program to five 90-minute workshop sessions for you to develop the creative writing skills, organization, daily writing habits and attitude that will release your reluctance and lead to your writing success. Regardless of your genre: fiction, nonfiction, memoir, one story, a scene or an entire manuscript, you ca adapt the content and exercises to your writing project.
The workshop guides you step by step to develop:
- methods for overcoming your writing reluctance
- a mega-view of your material and new creative writing
- an enhanced writing environment and process
- a personal calendar with your daily writing goals
- an improved attitude and commitment to write
a plan for continued accountability
With improved creative writing still, organization, and attitude, you become a writer ignited with new clarity, confidence, and commitment.
*Top Rated Instructor*
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