Lit!Commons: Jumpstarter Season 2

This pathway, led by Jaye Viner, is focused on honing your creativity, habit-building, and discipline toward a more productive writing practice. Live sessions will include shared support and habit-building to help overcome writer's block.

Jumpstarter

Lit!Commons Jumpstarter Pathway

Participants in Lit!Commons get access to all 10 teaching artists. Jaye Viner leads the Jumpstarter pathway, which pushes you to break through barriers and blocks that hold you back and stick your creative projects in the mud.

Jaye creates weekly on-demand content that can fit into your busy schedule and follows up with live sessions as well as peer conversation in our shared community.

In this pathway, you'll find activities and lessons like:

Harnessing Momentum and Interest
Playing Nice with Your Inner Critic
Overcoming Intrusive Thoughts

Your Teaching Artist

Lit!Commons Subscribers Gain Access to All 10 Teaching Artists. The Jumpstarter path is led by Jaye Viner.

The Jumpstarter Jaye Viner

Jaye Viner knows just enough about a wide variety of things to embarrass herself at parties she never attends. She holds an MFA and MA from the University of Nebraska, where she once taught college freshman the art of thinking for themselves. Now, she is an author and writing consultant. Her writing has been published in Brevity blog, the Roanoke Review, and Everyday Fiction. Her first novel, Jane of Battery Park, will be released in August by Red Hen Press.

The Jumpstarter Path

This curriculum will build over time. You get access to it all!

1. Welcome from Jaye Viner
2. What to Expect from The Jumpstarter
3. Shared Values and Rules
1. Matching your Personality Instincts to your Writing Practice
1. Introduction to this week's lesson
2. Concept Introduction: Reading as a Writer
3. Activity: break down a book you're reading
1. Introduction: Setting Goals and PrepTober
2. Activity: Identifying your Writing Goals
3. PrepTober - Using National Writing Month to Get Things Done
1. Introduction: Identifying Barriers
2. Activity: Identifying Barriers to your Writing Goals
3. One Writer's suggestions for 50,000 words in one month
1. Introduction: A Story on Process from Jaye's First Writing Retreat
2. Activity: Ideas that spark momentum
3. A video on Brainstorming
1. Introduction: Changing how we think about failure
2. A Growth Mindset
3. Activity: Now or Not Yet?
1. Introduction: Writing When You can't do the Writing you Want
2. NYTimes profile of Susanna Clarke
3. Activity: Feeding Yourself in Bites
1. Introduction: The Inner Critic
2. Activity: Playing Nice with your Inner Critic
1. Introduction Intrusive Thoughts
2. Feelings Derailment Graphic
3. Activity: Intrusive Thoughts
1. Introduction: This is a Big Feelings Month
2. Activity: Channeling the Big Feelings
1. Introduction: On Finishing Something
2. Activity: Finding an Ending
1. Introduction: What is a Word of the Year?
2. Lesson: Choosing a Word of the Year
3. Activity: Choosing your Word of the Year
1. Introduction: Short Fiction
2. Lesson: Short Fiction Introduction
3. Activity: Reading Short Fiction as Writer
1. Introduction: Reading Short Fiction - Craft
2. Lesson: Short Fiction Craft
3. Activity: Short Fiction as Low Commitment Experimentation
1. Introduction: Publishing Short Fiction
2. Short Fiction Markets: An Introduction
3. Activity: Know your Short Fiction Markets
1. Introduction: There's a lot that's Distracting Right Now
2. Barriers to Writing with Mary Robinette Kowal
3. Activity: When Writing is Hard
1. Introduction: (R)omance the Genre
2. Lesson: Introducing Romance
3. Activity: Entering the Romance Conversation
1. Introduction: Romance is a particular Form
2. Lesson: Romance Novel Beats
3. Activity: Exploring the Beats of your Romance Novel
1. Introduction: When is Romance Erotica?
2. Lesson: Romance Vs Erotica
3. Text Examples
4. Activity: The Craft of the Erotic
1. Activity: The Beauty in the Erotic

About this path

Weekly On-Demand Lessons
Live Follow-up Sessions
Shared Community