Instructor: Paula Chaffee Scardamalia
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025, 11:00 AM Eastern
Type: Zoom
Duration: 1 Hour
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $15; Non-Member – $20

Overwhelm seems to be an ever-present malaise affecting writers, especially since the advent of diminished marketing support from traditional publishers and the rise of self-publishing. In addition to writers now needing to wear so many hats, there are the personal, family, and societal challenges of recent years, as well as the endless to-do lists and the race to keep up with the craft, marketing, technology and more.

Overwhelm is described as feeling buried or drowned beneath a huge mass of…something, everything. It can lead to stress, anxiety, and procrastination.

In this workshop, you’ll learn what leads to overwhelm, steps to overcome it, and additional ideas for setting yourself up to keep overwhelm and its buddies, stress, anxiety, and procrastination, at a minimum. You’ll also learn a few tips for coping with it in the writing process itself.

If you’re feeling buried beneath it all, or daydreaming of escaping to the nearest beach, then this workshop is for you.

About the Instructor:

Paula Chaffee Scardamalia is a book coach, dream and tarot intuitive and the author of Enchanting Creativity: How Fairy Tales, Dreams, Rituals & Journaling Can Awaken Your Creative Self. She also wrote the award-winning Weaving a Woman’s Life: Spiritual Lessons from the Loom, as well as Tarot for the Fiction Writer, and her novel, In the Land of the Vultures. For more than 20 years, Paula’s presented workshops across the country for national and regional Romance Writers of America and other writing groups’ events, both online and in person. She publishes Divine Muse-ings, a weekly e-newsletter on writing, creativity, dreams, and tarot. She lives with her husband in the foothills of the Catskills in an 1840s Greek Revival farmhouse, constantly in need of TLC.”

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