Writing shouldn’t be all that hard: we do it all the time, for all sorts of reasons, and yet when we sit down and try to write our novel—or even a short story or anything at all remotely creative—we freeze up. We realize we don’t have time. We do, of course. Even if we have jobs and families and obligations, we can make time for our creative work, and we don’t have to stress about it too much. In this session, we’ll go over seven practical steps to animate, sustain, and deepen our creative practice, all of which have been derived from years of experience in writing and publishing and mentoring.