Online Writing Day: Create a Sustainable Writing Habit

‘I don’t love writing, but I love having written’ are words attributed to dozens of successful writers over the decades. Writing can be fulfilling, but the process of doing it can be hard. To write you need more than just a good idea – you need to find a creative process that will support you long term. How do you find time in your busy day to write? What writing barriers do you have and how do you overcome them? What is procrastination and how do you avoid it?

Join Bec Evans as she helps you find a writing process that fits with you and your life. As a writing productivity coach, writer, speaker and author she’ll give you the mental models and tried and tested tactics you need to build a writing habit that works for you long term.

Bec will offer advice on:

• writing in a more intentional, deliberate way
• effective goal setting and overcoming writing blocks and barriers
• understanding habit and building a regular writing routine
• recognising procrastination and tips to overcome it
• tips to find time based on research among 3,500 writers – whether you have a little time of a lot
• building writing confidence and resilience

Bec Evans is a writer, coach and consultant who helps writers keep writing. From her first job in a bookshop, to a career in publishing, several years managing Lumb Bank for Arvon , and now as co-founder of Prolifiko, she’s obsessed with creative persistence. Bec works with individuals, writing groups, publishers and universities. Her new book Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts was published in January 2023. Her first book, How to Have a Happy Hustle won a Business Book Award in 2020.

The guest speaker for this event will be Ed Wilson, agent and director at Johnson & Alcock.

To make the event as accessible and flexible as possible, all sessions of the day are delivered live via Zoom webinar. You have the choice to attend each session live, which will mean you can contribute via the chatbox, or you can watch the recordings of each session at any time over the course of the following month. Please note, your camera and audio will not be visible/audible, allowing you to relax and take the day at your own pace.

Cost: £85

Concessions: £42.50

As part of our effort to increase participation in the arts, 50% concessions are available for this course at checkout.

We are committed to making our Arvon at Home programme accessible to as many people as possible.

Across all of Arvon at Home

• All sessions will have auto-generated captioning.
• During sessions we will have a text version available via screen share.
• There is a Chat facility to ask any questions.

Masterclasses and Online Writing Day

• A recording of the Masterclass will be available to view for one month after it is aired live.
• There is a Chat and Q & A facility to ask any questions.
• Zoom webinar format (your video and audio will remain off throughout, & your name will not be visible to other participants so it is a ‘relaxed’ event).

How I Write

• There is a chat and Q&A facility to ask any questions.
• Zoom webinar format (your video and audio will remain off throughout, & your name will not be visible to other participants so it is a ‘relaxed’ event).

Online Writing Weeks / Weekends

• Courses have much smaller groups than Masterclasses and How I Write events, and are also more interactive with your fellow course participants and tutors, so cameras and audio are usually on (though both are completely optional). If you would prefer your camera and audio to be off, it would be helpful to let your course host know this in advance.

Subject to funding/permissions (please contact us for more details)

• Recording of Writing Weeks and Weekends.
• Downloadable transcripts.
• BSL interpretation.
• Live captioning.

If you have any access issues that we have not covered here, please contact us on access@arvon.org

See here for more access information.