Jess Wells
Author

Workshops Conducted for:

* Saints and Sinners Literary Conference
New Orleans, LA

* The Writing Salon
San Francisco, CA

Book this Workshop at Your College, Writers Conference or Art Center

Making Time for Creativity
A 1-3 hour, hands-on workshop
with Jess Wells

People everywhere wish they could find the time to express themselves. Meeting rooms, construction sites and classrooms are filled with people who cannot re-orient their priorities to make room for art in their life.

Even those who identify themselves as artists are constantly plagued with a shortage of time to create.

And students, ready to tackle a new life, need instruction on how to build a lifestyle that is conducive to their visions.

This workshop will:

• Empower the participants with practical, hands-on
ways to carve time for art
• Instruct in priority building
• Confront the obstacles, internal and external, to a
creative life
• Develop techniques for maximizing time
• Reveal the famous writers who produced great works
of art while gainfully employed
• Provide guidance in building a writer’s life and
budget
• Introduce the business work-ethic into the creative
process
• Plan a new writer’s life that can start tomorrow

Through a combination of worksheets, discussion and lectures, participants will walk out with a plan of action that works!

The Workshop Leader:

Jess Wells is a recent recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant for Literature. She is the author of thirteen volumes of work, including the historical novel, The Mandrake Broom and the novels, AfterShocks, re-issued as a Triangle Classic by InsightOut Books, and The Price of Passion. She is the author of five collections of short stories, the editor of several volumes of non-fiction and fiction, and a four-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She has been employed for 22 years in Silicon Valley, usually self-employed, and is a single mother. If there's one thing she knows how to do, it's write with a demanding life!