"After taking the SIMPLY WRITING workshop, I started writing every day." - Karen Bamford

"I thoroughly enjoyed the SIMPLY WRITING Workshop. I learned a lot of good techniques and got excellent insight into what it means to 'be a writer.' Also, I met a lot of interesting people with similar interests."
- David Mackail

"I feel that I am really making progress in my writing and don't know if I would have mustered the strength or the motivation to keep going if it weren't for the workshops, so THANK YOU! (You can quote me on that if you want.)
- Natascha Chadha

"Both the SIMPLY WRITING and the PLOT workshops freed me of misconceptions that I had about the process of writing. A joy of writing has replaced a burden to write. The world is now filled with ideas, plots, characters, and stories that can be told." - Ingrid Froelich

"SIMPLY WRITING gave me permission to write. The HUMOR & COMEDY workshops have helped me to discover a confetti of creativity and fun. I had been feeling stuck with my output as a writer...the HUMOR & COMEDY workshops really blew me out of the water." - Tara Shannon

"I didn't believe I was a writer before...after the workshop, I felt I could work at it and get good at it."
- Kiernan Crotty

"I found the writing workshops inspirational as well as informative... I left with a feeling of, 'I CAN do this'—and have a new confidence to go further." - K. Birnholz

"Lisa Friedman, the workshop leader for SIMPLY WRITING, is one of those 'good souls' you always hope to meet, but so rarely do in life. Her militant opposition to criticism within the workshop left me, and in my judgment the other participants, able to express ourselves during the workshop without fear. Moreover, we were able to see that another paradigm is possible—one in which the beauty of our expression, no matter how unrefined, makes it madness to destroy or stop our own creativity just because we hear the nastiness of the ever-present internal critic. She provided us with an incredible battery of resources for getting started and staying in the game of writing. Since participating in SIMPLY WRITING, I am proud to say that I have stopped destroying my own work which I deemed 'not good enough.' If you aren't a fellow 'get-rid-of-it-quick-before- anyone-sees-that-crap' writer, then you may not realize what an enormous accomplishment that is. Thank you so much, Lisa."
- Jon Jordan