Thursday, January 14 from 6-9pm Preparation
Mission Statements and Elevator Pitches
Defining Your Audience
Character Outlines
Gathering Your Tools (words, scenes & situations)
Friday, January 15 from 9am-5pm Getting Started
Welcome and Introductions
Mindfulness and Meditation
How to Start
Turn Off the Inner Editor
How to Protect your Writing Time and Space
Free writing and writing sprints interspersed
BREAK
In depth: Tips and Tricks to Carve Out Writing Time
How to Activate Your Creativity
Character Development
Brain Break
Breaking the Block: Getting Unstuck
Goal Setting and Tracking
Saturday, January 16 from 9am-12pm
Feedback & Discussion
Why Collaborate?
How to: Writing Groups
Closing
Saturday, January 16, 2-5pm What's Next
Editing and Revising
Editing in Action
Short Stories and Editing Practice
Beta Readers, ARC Readers & Street Teams
Full Weekend (Thursday evening, Friday all day, Saturday morning and afternoon) = $150
Main Retreat (Friday and Saturday morning) = $100
Add on either Thursday evening or Saturday afternoon = $35
Rixlie Zinn is fiercely independent–until her body begins to fail. Now her only hope for survival lies with the Uxil: the aliens who arrived six years ago, saving humanity from a plague and sharing their advanced technology. But Rixlie’s trusty personal droid warns that the extraterrestrial angels are hiding a sinister agenda.
To survive this rare disease, Rixlie must ask for help, the one thing she hates most. In order to face threats she never expected and discover truths no one suspected, she’s forced to learn to rely on God, family, friends, and a few unlikely allies.
A mix of medical thriller and alien conspiracy, this Christian sci-fi novel will have you laughing and crying with the raw emotion of a survival story based on the author's real-life experience with Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
Book 1 of Songs of Power. Available on Amazon in eBook and paperback.
Songs of Power Book 1.5
Available now on Amazon in eBook and paperback.
*Can be read either before or after Melodies of Fire.
Songs of Power Book 2.5
The story of how Colin and Jerome became such good friends.
Available now on Amazon in eBook and paperback.
*Read after Jerome the Gnome.
Sequel to Harmonies of Earth, Songs of Power Book 3, currently in progress.
Status: drafting
Update: Rewriting opening, editing middle, and completing the end. ETA: 2027