Overcoming perfectionism and writing about your design practice online
Hi party people! Let's have some fun with writing - you're invited!
I love writing as part of my service design practice, and have written for Adobe, in the Touchpoint service design journal, on Medium and in my newsletter Ask A Service Designer. I thought it would be fun to get a group together to chat about writing practice for designers.
This event is for you if you:
Are a designer (service design, design research, UX, product design, design thinking, etc) who wants to develop (or restart) a writing practice and share your practice online, but not sure where to start.
Feel like everything has been said before (and probably by someone smarter than you).
Find yourself struggling to make time to write.
This will be in two parts.
Part 1 - March 26th 12noon - 1pm
We will get together in a small group and I will share:
The why and how of my own online writing practice as a designer
Share my own process and tips for things like overcoming imposter syndrome, writers block, where I get ideas, findings time to write
Stats and views from my own writing
And you will have the chance to connect with others to pair coach on:
Your biggest blocks to writing
Coming up with ideas you feel excited about
Part 2 - date TBD based on what works for the majority - 60 min writing accountability circle
We will come back together for a writing accountability circle to work on a draft or outline for one of our ideas!
Pricing is sliding scale to enable participation and accessibility.
To select the ticket option that feels right for you, draw on the wisdom and example of Holly Poole-Kavana at Red Bird Botanicals. I learned of this framework through the work of Liisbeth.com and the Feminist Enterprise Commons, who were introduced to it by CV Harquail. Holly created this guidance (below) which I cite with gratitude.
Consider choosing a lower ticket level if you:
are supporting children or have other dependents
have significant debt
have medical expenses not covered by insurance
receive public assistance
have immigration-related expenses
are an elder with limited financial support
are an unpaid community organizer
Consider a higher ticket level if you:
own the home you live in
have investments, retirement accounts, or inherited money
travel recreationally
have access to family money and resources in times of need
work part time by choice
have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education (or gender and racial privilege, class background, physical ability, etc.) Even if you are not currently exercising your earning power, I ask you to recognize this as a choice.