Writing Retreat: Find an audience, sell your ideas, curate and customize your voice!
$799.00
This retreat is designed for all Christian people, regardless of their participation in ministry.
Wednesday, May 29th | 6pm – Saturday, June 1st | 10am
Are you ready to cultivate your craft? To learn from your peers with an open-minded posture of curious discovery? Fabulous! If you have ambitions to write but don’t know how to get your ideas off your laptop and into the world, then this experience will catalyze your process and jumpstart your creativity.
Whether you’re looking to sell a manuscript or sharpen your quill so your ideas face-grab your readers, we will help you find an audience, sell your ideas, curate and customize your voice while cutting out the slop and getting to the core of what truly matters to you and to the world.
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Description
You will learn:
* How to ruthlessly edit the suck out of your manuscript.
* How to captivate an audience with suspense, tension, and surprise.
* How to sharpen arguments, wordsmith key phrases, and stimulate your rhetoric.
* How to give (and receive!) helpful critique on both the craft of writing and the mechanics of storytelling.
* How to write with your voice, sharpening and refining who you are as a writer.
Additional information
| Retreat Type | Retreat Only, Retreat + Overnight Accommodations |
|---|---|
| Length of stay | Commuter, WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACCOMMODATION, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHTS ACCOMMODATION, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS ACCOMMODATION |
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THURSDAY
8:00am Breakfast in the Salon, “Clues to a Great Story”
9:00am Literary Study: Luke 15.1-32
10:00am SESSION ONE: Flash Fiction in the Library
11:00am SESSION TWO: Imagery in the Library
12:30pm Walk to lunch at Dirty Bird
2:00pm SESSION THREE: Plot in the Library
3:00pm SESSION FOUR: Critique in the Library
3:30pm Free Time
6:30pm Pizza in the Salon
8:30pm Screening Room: On Writing
10:00pm Repose
FRIDAY
8:00am Breakfast in the Salon, “The Magic Science of Storytelling”
9:00am Literary Study: Revelation 11.1-13
10:00am SESSION FIVE: Character in the Library
11:00am SESSION SIX: Form in the Library
12:30pm Walk to lunch at Grand River Brewery
2:00pm SESSION SEVEN: 20 Rules of Writing in the Library
2:30pm SESSION EIGHT: Tone in the Library
3:00pm SESSION NINE: Revision in the Library
4:00pm Free Time
7:30pm Feast of Ignatius
BEST BOOKS ON WRITING
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
The Kick-Ass Writer, by Chuck Wendig
On Writing, by Stephen King
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, by Renni Browne
Naked, Drunk, and Writing, by Adair Lara
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