Craft Kick your muse into high gear with award-winning author and creativity coach Mary O’Gara

Mindful Creating, aka How to get the most from your muse when you want it, is a month-long workshop focusing on quieting, focusing and working with your creative mind. You’ve taken your Inner Writer on artist dates and talked to her in morning pages; you’ve tried all the writing software and attended all the workshops. You may have plotted six thousand books you haven’t written yet or learned to write a book in a month. And whatever you’ve done is good, but it’s the dating and courtship stage.

Mindful Creating is a month of lessons and exercises to help you with the committed marriage stage of writing, the productive ongoing lifetime relationship with creativity that supports books (the children), sustains a brand (food on the table) and moves drama and chaos from your life to the page (building a life structure.) As you do the simple exercises, you’ll build the muscles and develop the stamina for sustained creative work.

The “Mindful Creativity” workshop brings together simplified ways writers can work with their minds more effectively so they can work well and deeply at any time. Mary draws on years of study of creativity and kabbalah, including materials from her doctoral paper on the ancient four elements, to present simple exercises and insights to help writers develop their creativity and their flexibility as professional (or at least passionate) artists. This is a workshop for all levels.