South East London Group: Creative Goal Setting with Jenny Alexander

Join the South East London Group on Tuesday 12 May from 4pm for a discussion on creative goal setting with Jenny Alexander.

Creative goal setting is not like making New Year’s resolutions, which result in success or failure. It’s more like writing fiction, when you need a rough idea about how the story will unfold and end, to give you a sense of direction and help you get started, but you expect this to change as the story develops. Creative goals, for work or life in general, are always a work in progress. They are also completely individual – there’s no one size fits all – and so is the methodology for working towards them. Things like daily word counts and the pomodoro method, for example, work great for some people, but they paralyse my writing because it’s the beautiful movement of the process, not pressure to perform, that brings me home to writing every day.

For more information on Jenny Alexander and her books, articles and workshops, take a look at her website www.jennyalexander.co.uk .

As usual the format will be: 10-15 minutes talk, followed by discussion, then social time.

We will meet at a NEW LOCATION: Bell House, 27 College Road, Dulwich, London SE21 7BG. Refreshments will be DIY, so please bring your own drinks and snacks!

All members welcome!

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