Description
There are THREE options to stay in the Hart House. Purchasing this room is includes a private bathroom in the Aviary Room.
This is for the February 19-24, 2024 week-long retreat with Julia Fine.
As part of Ragdale’s new series of Master Workshops, StoryStudio is proud to offer this week-long experience.
Part retreat, part mini-residency, this Master Workshop for writers will focus on providing space and community for your work-in-progress. Outside of structured writing time and mini-lessons, the week has been crafted to provide ample writing time to yourself.
The Retreat’s Theme: Trusting Your Instincts
You can read every craft book, follow every formula, and hew to every rule, but at a certain point as writers you will have to rely on your gut feeling. An editor might love a passage in your book, but something in you says it just isn’t hitting. Your intricate outline tells you to take the story in one direction, but a little voice keeps leading you off track. What should you do? How do we honor both the work and our feelings surrounding it?
This week, we’ll hone our instincts so that we can feel comfortable trusting them. We’ll look at how to set up for success with prewriting and prep work that still leaves room for creativity and play, talk candidly about changing gears when something isn’t right, and dig deep to find the truths we’ve been avoiding. Writers should come away from this retreat with a strong sense of how and when to follow their gut, and an assortment of tools to help them do so.
Unlike traditional workshops, this week-long retreat will be more consultation, generative, and discussion based.
There would also be slots during which participants will meet one-on-one with Julia to discuss an element of their writing that they want. There isn’t meant to be pre-reading of work, so this will not be workshop-based, but rather a conversation of your ideas, where you’re at in the process, discussing the publishing industry, etc.
The week begins with dinner on Monday, and all meals are included through Saturday brunch.
*Please note: rooms are limited, and we cannot guarantee you a spot at any of our retreat spots.
