Cleveland Events: Saturday 4/23 and Sunday 4/24

Saturday, April 23, 10:00 a.m. to Noon in Cleveland, Ohio at Literary Cleveland at Lake Erie Ink, Hillary is presenting Joyful Writing Productivity. Inspiration exists and is available to everyone at any time. Under-productivity, procrastination, and blocks are solvable problems. The secret to achieving a state of near-perpetual inspiration (a.k.a., “flow”) is to switch from…

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Don’t Forget to Check Out My September Online Classes!

Online courses are convenient, cheap, and fun–and you can be located anywhere! My SavvyAuthors class for graduate students, faculty, and other academic writers starts Monday September 16. I’m offering a discounted class/coaching bundle via famed writing community The Loft. All writers, including creative, business, nonprofit writers, welcome. Take a class now and have a productive…

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Last Call: New England

If you’ve wanted to take my Grub Street Writers class NOW is the time. I am moving to Michigan in September (more on this later!), and August’s class will be the last for a while. It will be held August 12-15 (Monday-Thursday), 10:30am-1:30pm at 162 Boylston Street (2 mins from Boylston Street T; discounted parking…

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Are Millennials Spoiled?

In my workshops I teach the benefits of an antiperfectionist viewpoint: one that is compassionate, empathetic, nonjudgmental of yourself and others, etc. Yesterday, a 20-something participant raised the question of whether her and her generation had been too indulged (and thus weakened and infantalized) by excessive praise and other support from parents and others. The…

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COHASSET: Overcoming Writer’s Block

Tuesday, May 31 from 7 PM – 8:30PM , Buttonwood Books, Cohasset Buttonwood Books, Shaws Plaza Route 3A, Cohasset MA 02025, 781-383-2665 Cost: Free (come early for good seat) Writer’s block isn’t caused by laziness or lack of discipline, but disempowerment. Learn why at Hillary Rettig’s lively workshop, a condensation of her six-week Grub Street…

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Boston, MA: Time Management Workshop

Time Management Workshop (sponsored by Sojust) Location: GLAD, 30 Winter Street (Downtown Crossing), 8th floor Fee: $5 – $10 at door Preregistration encouraged: http://www.sojust.org/calendar/15463726/ This workshop begins with a discussion of how time should be viewed and valued; why one needs to manage it; and how successful people tend to view and use time. Then…

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ONLINE WORKSHOP (All writers welcome!): The Seven Secrets of the Prolific

Secrets of the Prolific: How to Boost Your Writing Productivity and Overcome Writers Block (online, for ALL writers) Click for more info Date: 8/29/2011 – 9/25/2011 Fee: $25 members / $30 nonmembers This course offers an easy, convenient and inexpensive learning experience. Twice a week I post a lesson (on time management, coping with perfectionism,…

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