Free Mini-Camp: Your Limitations as a Writer
Free Mini-Camp: “Your Limitations as a Writer”
Saturday, March 2nd, 10am-11:15am (LA Time) via zoom
with Founder Jeffrey Gordon (JG)
RSVPs will be accepted until Noon the day before. (Once you RSVP, zoom will control your access.)
Do You Know Your Creative Issues & Writing Limitations
Please join us as Writers Boot Camp Founder Jeffrey Gordon (JG) will help set the stage for newer writers to more fully understand the professional writing landscape and to establish stronger individual career horizons.
To quote JG, “This Mini-Camp topic came to me while washing a few dishes at the sink, literally shaking my head in reply to my reflection in the window, as I thought about how many writers after their early drafts remain in profound denial about all the factors and the virtual checklist of issues to overcome to accomplish what it truly takes to get one project produced.”
There are certain expectations that artists breaking into the industry, whether in their 20s or 40s–or later–carry with them, often not consciously. These expectations can be individually distinctive–and they are driving forces, yet generally are not informed by a sophisticated integration about the nuances of productivity, the inherent derivative nature of stories, or contextualized by hard-fought insight from frontline, practical experience.
At Writers Boot Camp, we battle with and help writers get past the typical superficiality that plagues artists at various career stages. But a sort of vanity born of naivete can make the veneer rather thick.
The start of this deepening of illumination–to get past your writing limitations–can spring from candid questions like these:
–What’s the real reason you’re not writing consistently?
–What will you do after our 10-Week Basic Training to continue your writing process?
–Are you dependent on validation or outside motivation to write?
–Are you truly educated as a writer?
–Are you a process person?
–Do you comprehend the nature of rewriting?
–What is the big idea behind your presumably great idea?
Among the many fallacies we dispel at Writers Boot Camp is that of putting a deadline on your success within the entertainment industry. The story of an apparent overnight success is usually the result of someone passionately putting in one more late night after many prior late nights.
Of session, you can leave the industry anytime but that idea of breaking through, gaining notoriety, is more about what you do and how you shift to manifest your goals, not by wishing things so.
This Mini-Camp will be like a mirror, that kitchen window on a Tuesday night, with your image winking back at you–or questioning your approach to your writing. It’s the writers job to be the expert on process, though that authority can be nearly impossible to achieve as an outsider–and a writer cannot be successful with an outsider’s view of their own craft.
If you RSVP, please let us know if you have a last-minute conflict and cannot attend. Feel free to forward to one individual artist who will benefit from what we do.