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Master the Art of Organizing Your Writing Life!

  • 17 Aug 2024
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Online via Zoom

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Master the Art of
Organizing Your Writing Life!

with Paulette Perhach

Ever feel like your writing life is filled with half-started stories, a tangle of notes, and ideas that vanish as quickly as they appear? Step into a world where chaos meets its match. This transformative class is your golden ticket to conquering the clutter, bringing you a treasure trove of organizational strategies, essential tools, and adaptable templates tailored to bring order to your creative process. Envision a future where every draft is right where it should be, every idea is logged and waiting for its moment to shine, and every day feels like it’s building toward the writing life you dream of having. Ready to revolutionize your writing routine? Join us on this journey to find the true potential of your writing life.


ABOUT THE SPEAKER


PAULETTE PERHACH


Paulette Perhach’s writing has been published in the New York Times, Vox, Elle, The Washington Post, Slate, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, Yoga Journal, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hobart, and Vice. She’s the author of two million-reader viral essays.

Her book, Welcome to the ​Writer's Life, was published in 2018 by Sasquatch Books, part of the Penguin Random House publishing family, and was selected as one of Poets & Writers' Best Books for Writers.

She blogs about a writer’s craft, business, personal finance, and joy at welcometothewriterslife.com and leads meditation and writing sessions through A Very Important Meeting.

She serves writers as a coach, helping them figure out how to make a life and career out of being a writer while making the money work (as she figures it all out herself.) She's also a speaker on the topics of creativity, writing, and business. ​

Hugo House, a nationally recognized writing center in Seattle, awarded her the Made at Hugo House fellowship in 2013. In 2016, she was nominated for the BlogHer Voices of the Year award for her essay, “A Story of a Fuck Off Fund,” which is anthologized in The Future is Feminist from Chronicle Books, along with work by Roxane Gay, Mindy Kaling, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Caitlin Moran, and Audre Lorde.

In 2021, she was selected as a Jack Straw Fellow. In 2022 she celebrated a nomination from Barrelhouse for Best of the Net. Her work has been included in round-ups from Memoir Monday, the Aspen Institute, Fortune’s Broadsheet, and Girlboss.

She shared the honor of a 2021 Washington State Book Award for the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of Covid-19 as a contributor.


Find Paulette online:


Website: www.pauletteperhach.com


Instagram:@paulettejperhach





Learn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing

With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writer’s life as someone who has once been on the outside looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration of all the elements of being a writer—from your writing practice to your reading practice, from your writing craft to the all-important and often-overlooked business of writing.

In Welcome to the Writer’s Life, you will learn how to tap into the powers of crowdsourcing and social media to grow your writing career. Perhach also unpacks the latest research on success, gamification, and lifestyle design, demonstrating how you can use these findings to further improve your writing projects. Complete with exercises, tools, checklists, infographics, and behind-the-scenes tips from working writers of all types, this book offers everything you need to jump-start a successful writing life.


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