How to Fit Writing into a Vibrant Life (without going bananas)

The Writers Alliance of Gainesville welcomes master juggler (of a vibrant life), author Michelle Dunlap, who will share how she’s found ways to get writing done and help you develop your methods for consistently finding time to write.

Do you have significant responsibilities? Perhaps you are raising children or grandchildren, holding down multiple jobs, caring for aging parents, trying to improve the world through volunteerism, or dealing with health issues that sap your strength.

How can we also fit productive writing into our lives? And meet deadlines? How can we do a good job of incorporating our writing without seeming rattled? How and when do we find time?

On Sunday, September 14, let’s come together at the Millhopper branch of the Alachua County Library and figure it out.

This interactive workshop will offer strategies that writers and other creatives can use to write while juggling multiple roles. Participants should bring a notebook, calendar, and pen to sketch a writing plan.

This session will be led by WAG board member, educator Michelle Dunlap, who has never known a time when she wasn’t juggling multiple family, work, and community responsibilities. Yet, she has managed to write a dissertation and 50 other published pieces.

She has authored two books and co-edited three others. She managed all this while a single parent raising two children, caring for a terminally ill parent, and holding major ministerial, board, and other service responsibilities within her community.

“It was far from easy,” she said, but she had to find ways to get the writing done to achieve her goals. In this workshop, she hopes her strategies will help you develop your methods for consistently finding time to write.

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This program is free and open to the public. Join us!

2:30-4 PM
September 14

Millhopper Branch, Alachua County Library
3145 NW 43rd St.
Gainesville, FL 32606
352-334-1272 (venue phone)
Millhopper Branch | Alachua County Library District