CUSTOMIZING YOUR RETREAT.
Just how deep do you want to dig into the Revision Mines? It’s up to you. Customize a retreat experience that fits your schedule & preferred pace. You can watch videoconference sessions live or in replay at your leisure over the rest of the summer and beyond.
Have a blast creating your own tunnels through the mines.
SCHEDULE CHANGES (updated 7/25). I made a couple changes to the schedule for the upcoming week:
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- The Hidden Gems videos, 1 and 2, will be posted Thursday and Friday rather than Tuesday and Friday.
- The Drill Tutorials will be posted Monday, Wednesday and Friday rather than Monday and Thursday.
DEEP REVISION MINES CORE OFFERINGS & RETREAT SCHEDULE.
FRIDAY July 23RD
- Orientation Bio Forum (continued from early welcome on Friday). Introduce yourself on the Bio Forum page.
- Welcome to the Revision Mines: Retreat Orientation Video. Revision isn’t optional, so how do you make it optimal?
SATURDAY July 24th
Daily posts – 8 a.m. access unless otherwise indicated.
- Concept Crystalizing Session—Revision Mythblaster Video 1. Blast through myths like “I’ll ruin it if I rewrite it” and dig into in the bedrock of your story. When you’re willing to kill your darlings and keep only what the story needs, the story form you began searching for in draft one, but couldn’t quite yet find, slowly crystalizes the more you mine. Discover what super-plotters (die-hard outliners) and pantsers (seat of the pants writers) have in common, and how to bring the thrill of the new into the excavation of the old.
- Craft Intensive Session—Multiple Character Facets: Blackboard Post. We’ll shine the light on multiple character facets to determine which to keep, which to cut, and which to leave behind.
SUNDAY July 25th
Daily post – 8 a.m. access.
- Concept Crystalizing Session—Revision Mythblaster Video 2. Blast through myths like “I’ll ruin it if I rewrite it” and dig into in the bedrock of your story. When you’re willing to kill your darlings and keep only what the story needs, the story form you began searching for in draft one, but couldn’t quite yet find, slowly crystalizes the more you mine. Discover what super-plotters (die-hard outliners) and pantsers (seat of the pants writers) have in common, and how to bring the thrill of the new into the excavation of the old.
Live today.
- 2:00– 3:00 p.m. Masterminers Interview Session with Kristine Anderson. Angela discusses deep revision with students she’s coached on their way to publication.
MONDAY July 26th
Daily posts – 8 a.m. access.
- Craft Intensive Session—Mining the Gold of Dilemma: Blackboard Post. Dig past fool’s gold to the hero’s gold of inner dilemma.
- Concept Crystalizing Session—Revision Drill Tutorial & Downloadable Worksheets. Drill down on scene outlines, character webs, set up-payoff checklists, plot point referents, and come away with exercises to apply directly to your WIP.
Live today.
- 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Craft Intensive Session: Multiple Character Facets Zoom Talk. We’ll shine the light on multiple character facets to determine which gems to mine and which to leave behind.
- Add-On: Juried Critique Session.
TUESDAY July 27th
Live today.
- 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. LIVE Writing Session. Write in shared solitude and keep yourself accountable. Log in, commit to 45 minutes of timed writing live on Zoom, log your progress and log out.
- 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Masterminers Interview Session with Eileen Schnabel. Angela discusses deep revision with students she’s coached on their way to publication.
WEDNESDAY July 28th
Daily posts – 8 a.m. access.
- Concept Crystalizing Session—Revision Drill Tutorial & Downloadable Worksheets. Drill down on nodes of connection between character, theme, setting & action and come away with exercises to apply directly to your WIP. (moved up from Thursday, posted Wed evening.)
- Craft Intensive Session—The Ore of Story World: Blackboard Post. Tap into rich veins of story world and discuss when plot layers add too little or too much.
Live today.
- 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Craft Intensive Session—Mining the Gold of Dilemma: Zoom Talk. Dig past fool’s gold to the hero’s gold of inner dilemma.
- 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Concept Crystalizing Session—Midweek Touchstone. Sort through what you’ve stockpiled so far and share your favorite picks from the mines.
- 2:30 Virtual Ice Cream Social.
THURSDAY July 29th
Daily posts – 8 a.m. access.
- Concept Crystalizing Session—Hidden Gems Video 1 (moved from Tuesday) Angela admires gems of revision from established writers and holds them up to the light to examine their facets. The quotes focus on the revision process, and perseverance.
Live today.
- 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Masterminers Interview Session with Greg Renz. Angela discusses deep revision with students she’s coached on their way to publication.
FRIDAY July 30th
Daily posts – 8 a.m. access.
- Concept Crystalizing Session—Hidden Gems Video 2. Angela admires gems of revision from established writers and holds them up to the light to examine their facets. The quotes focus on the revision process, and perseverance.
- Concept Crystalizing Session—Revision Drill Tutorial & Downloadable Worksheets. Drill down on nodes of connection between character, theme, setting & action and come away with exercises to apply directly to your WIP.
Live today.
- 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Craft Intensive Session: The Ore of Story World Zoom Talk. Tap into rich veins of story world and discuss when plot layers are too weak or pile on too much.
- 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. LIVE Writing Session. Write in shared solitude and keep yourself accountable. Log in, commit to 45 minutes of timed writing live on Zoom, log your progress and log out.
SATURDAY July 31st
Live today.
- 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Crystalizing Session: Gems of Deep Revision. For any writers who’d like to say for a follow up focus on final facets. Bring questions for small group discussion.
**All retreat participants agree to Zoom session recordings and the distribution/editing of Zoom Replays for current and future Writers’ Inlet courses.**