“We should bring JULIA ROBERTS in to speak!”
Julia Roberts — the “Write Without the Fight” Speaker — is usually the only one at a writers’ conference, talking about the psychological struggle with writing. And she brings significant scientific research, insight and humor to her topic.
The energetic and personable Julia Roberts, MSc educates writers about the universal creative process and their own strengths and struggles within the process so they can see their patterns, identify their foibles and forearm themselves with a proven tool.
Julia reaches out regularly to anguished writers from live stages, teleseminars and webinars, has been a guest of a dozen tv talk and news shows, and hundreds of radio shows. She has three published books, and earned her MS in Creative Studies from Buffalo State College. Julia is a fun and informative speaker who can help your writers overcome their creative resistance… and just write.
Primary Speaking Topics
Most writers think their fight with procrastination is a character flaw. Julia Roberts shows us it is our unique thinking profile coming up against the phase of creativity where we have legitimate difficulties. More than that, she offers tools — bona fide, researched, scientifically-sound tools — to help us jog our brains out of that rut, and move forward with clarity and inspiration.
Each writer has their own unique relationship to the creative process, so we each have our own experiences with “block,” “resistance,” procrastination, excuse-making. Julia helps put that in creative context and empower attendees to go home and just write.
If the very idea of marketing drains you of energy, the you might need help tapping back into your native creativity to make a marketing plan that excites you, and that puts your most important assets front and center – your personality and your creativity.
Everyone has to market their work these days – it’s half the job. Learn to find the fun, the voice and the creative process that can help your work rise on the bestsellers’ list, increase your audience size, get published, produced, seen and heard.
What if you can’t write? What if you’re stuck? It happens to every writer at some point. Successful writers have a secret power – and it isn’t always brilliant prose or strong plots. They know how to get unstuck and back to writing.
Julia Roberts introduces assessment and diagnosis to help writers see their strengths and deal with their struggles, in a way that is specific to their own brand of “stuck.” The science of creativity has been assessing and assisting fluid creativity for over 60 years — and Julia has made it her mission to bring that research and understanding to writers, so they can get unstuck and just write.
Comments from the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop participants
“Julia was amazing. Personal, prepared, and I learned new things about my blocks.”
“I loved loved loved this session. Holy wow…it is helping me break through so many barriers to writing, and I’ve been more productive (in more ways than just writing) since the workshop than I have in months! Her presentation was engaging and fun. This was a great, great session.”
“My friend had attended the Friday session and told me I wouldn’t regret it. She wasn’t wrong. It was amazing.”
