Writing Workshops

Find Your Creative Flow with Jaime deBlanc

$345

6 sessions

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Once a week Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT October 30 to December 11, 2025

Online via Zoom

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Are you someone who’s always loved to write but hardly writes at all these days? Do you have writing dreams that you want to get back in touch with but don’t know how?

If you love to write creatively but struggle with finding the time, motivation, and perseverance to complete projects, you are not alone! All of us were born with a natural desire to create, but our adult lifestyles can sap much of the joy, freedom, and lightness from our early impulses.

In this six-week course, you’ll get back in touch with your creative headspace by exploring both the barriers to creativity and the strategies that help you reconnect with your passion for writing. Each class touches on a particular barrier to creativity and offers concrete strategies to address it. We then dive into writing time, with inventive and thought-provoking writing prompts that help you access fresh ideas.

Course Outline:

This class is structured around the six crucial elements to creativity: time, space, play, confidence, structure, and support.

In Class One, we’ll explore why “time” is one of the number one challenges writers face. You’ll better understand the way your brain works, and how to set up your writing time to best support your creative brain. We’ll talk about opened and closed modes of thought, writing rituals, the role of creative anxiety, and you’ll be introduced to our first writing prompt of the course.
In Class Two, we’ll delve into the concept of creative space—which includes both physical and mental space. You’ll learn how to creative effective boundaries around your creative space and cultivate a sense of creative sanctuary in your life. During the last part of class, you’ll engage with a writing prompt designed to get your creative juices flowing.
In Class Three, we’ll discuss the importance of play and experimentation in creative work. You’ll learn how to suspend judgment and criticism during the drafting process and learn about the benefits of favoring curiosity over fear. We wrap up class with our third writing prompt of the course.
In Class Four, we tackle the concept of confidence—and why the lack of it so often seems to hobble our creative process. You’ll learn about “shitty first drafts,” gain strategies for working with your inner critic, and understand how to develop more positive self-talk in your writing practice. The final segment of class focuses on our fourth writing prompt of the course.
In Class Five, you’ll learn how structure is crucial to maintaining a productive, rewarding writing practice. We’ll talk about accountability and goal-setting, and you’ll be introduced to several practical tools that help you track progress, reward commitment, and gain momentum on your work-in-progress. You’ll then get a chance to respond to our fifth writing prompt of the course.
In Class Six, we dive into the concept of support and why it’s so crucial for writers, who so often work in isolation. You’ll discover how to find your writing community, team up with a writing buddy, and access options for daily, weekly, and monthly connection with other writers. We wrap up class with our sixth writing prompt of the course.

Level: Introductory

This course will meet online via Zoom. Please note that this course will not meet on November 27th.

Led by

Jaime deBlanc

Jaime deBlanc

Jaime deBlanc holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin. Her short fiction has been published in Catapult, Juked, and Post Road, and she has been the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Lighthouse Works Fellowship. Her novel After Image was released by Thomas & Mercer in 2024, and her next novel, The Silver Cord, is forthcoming in 2026. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she coaches fiction and memoir writers.

Photo Credit: Bailey Toksoz

About this series

Writing Workshops

We strive to make our classes the most inviting and rewarding available, offering an intimate environment to study with award-winning, world-class writers. Each class is specially designed by the instructor, so whether you’re a fledgling writer or an MFA graduate polishing your novel, you’ll find a perfect fit here.

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