Overcome Writer’s Block & Unlock Your Creativity
Transformational workshops, residencies, and retreats designed to help every writer—from emerging voices to seasoned practitioners—cultivate a joyful writing practice.
“Devotion to Writing CHANGED MY LIFE two years ago! It launched my daily writing practice, which is more than a writing practice. It’s showing up and joyfully welcoming the flow, which allows me to feel deeply enough to express myself creatively. If you want to find a way to honor that call to creative expression, Devotion to Writing is it!”—Caren S.”
From Writer’s Block to Writing Breakthrough
We understand writing can be difficult. It’s scary and vulnerable to put yourself on the page. Where do you begin? What if you have nothing to say? What if what you write isn’t good?
Our in person and virtual writer’s block workshops offer proven rituals and practices designed to break creative blocks and awaken your creative energy, and flow. Our residencies and retreats are supportive communities that nourish and nurture your writing life.
Devotion to Writing shifts your relationship to writing. You’ll cultivate a consistent practice, breaking the silence of the page and connecting with voice and abundance creative energy. Practice leads to breakthroughs, and writing—which once felt difficult—becomes a ritual expression and joyous celebration of creating.
A Haven for Writers and Creatives
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Writer's Block Workshops
Our in person and online writing workshops remove the doubts and fears that contribute to writing block, spark your imagination, and establish you in a dynamic creative practice.
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Creative Writing Retreats
Our retreats are international moveable feasts that nourish your writing life and invite you to share in a vibrant, creative community.
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Writer's Residencies
Our residencies provide the time, space, and supportive community you need to make headway on your project or simply cultivate a daily writing practice.
I’ve lived a rich creative life as a published author, poet, photographer, musician, father, and husband. Yet I believe Devotion to Writing is my life’s work, my service. It allows me to realize my mission of helping people awaken creatively through writing. The ideas, tips, and advice I share have emerged from own experience as a writer and artist struggling to cultivate a creative practice and sustain creative connection over my 35+ year career. Devotion to Writing’s approach to writing and creating transforms paralysis, frustration, and negativity into inspiration, consistency, and fulfillment. I invite you to discover the power of devotion and get started on your own transformational journey.
Meet Justen Ahren
Founder of Devotion to Writing
“Everyone is creative. Each of us is the infinite flow of creative energy. We’ve merely forgotten how to channel our true nature into creating our lives. We aren’t taught how wondrous or abundantly gifted we are. We’ve been raised without permission to be our big creative selves by people who don’t remember who and what they are.”
“I just love Devotion to Writing. The ideas help me settle into my writing life. I found you at exactly the right time as I’m trying to reestablish a writing practice after about 10 years of writer’s block and resistance. Thank you for this program.” Lisa Z.
Turn Fear Into Flow
Devotion to Writing is more than a writing program—it’s a transformational approach to writing and creativity.
Our promise is to help you:
- Overcome writer’s block with proven techniques and writing rituals. - Cultivate a sustainable writing practice that deepens over time—a devotion. - Find encouragement, inspiration, and accountability through a creative community.
Creativity isn’t a lightning bolt—it’s a devoted practice, a process, a relationship you cultivate with yourself, and the world.
“I was raised in an environment of extreme negativity, where creativity was not recognized. Thank you so much for pointing out how gratitude, generosity, and creativity are connected; it was a significant revelation for me. Blessings to you in abundance! —Herne H.
Upcoming Writing Opportunities
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Online Writer's Block Workshop
November 12-December 10, 2025
Wednesday Evenings 7-8:30pm EST
Overcome doubts and fears that keep you from writing. This 5-week writing workshop supports your process and nurtures your abundant creativity.
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A Sacred Writing Journey
12 weeks: January 10-March 28, 2026
Saturdays 9:30-11am EST
A transformational online workshop to help you establish a writing devotion step by step. Find consistency, deepen your creative practice, and realize creative fulfillment.
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Martha's Vineyard Writers' Residency
March 1-21, 2026 Choose 1 - 3 weeks at historic Lambert’s Cove Inn.
Time, space, and a supportive community in which to work on a project or cultivate a daily writing practice. For writers at any stage of their careers.
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In Person Writing Workshops
June 19-22, 2026 Sept. 10-13, 2026
Workshops that spark imagination, and nurture your creative energy on stunning Martha’s Vineyard. Join an intimate community for a transformative writing journey of creative self-discovery.
“Devotion to Writing is a completely unique and individual approach! I personally realize this very moment that THIS is what was lacking from all other advice: the spiritual element.” —Jane F.
Your Writing Journey Begins Here…
Writing is more than words on a page—it’s a path to wholeness, joy, and creative transformation. At Devotion to Writing, our writer’s block workshops, creative writing communities, and daily practice guidance help you cultivate a lasting, life changing devotion to the process and craft of writing.
We’ve helped hundreds of people overcome writer’s block, find community, and transform their relationship and approach to writing and creating. Devotion to Writing is for writers and artists seeking freedom, depth, and consistency in their creative practice. We offer a unique approach to writing as a daily devotional practice that fosters courage, curiosity, play, joy, and creative fulfillment.
We are a community that encourages, supports, and inspires the sacredness of writing no matter where you are on your writing journey. We believe writing is not about perfection, but about the process of showing up, communing, honoring, and expressing the creative energy within you.
A life that gives full expression to what is within is a life full-filled by beauty, joy, and abundance. Begin your transformative creative journey today. Awaken the innate, infinite creative flow within you.