Have you been dreaming of joining us on a writing retreat?
Maybe 2025 is your year??
Have you been enjoying the pictures from our Grand Lake and Italy retreats these past months? (Instagram and Facebook)
Well, get excited, because we’ll be returning to some of our favorite places and welcoming some new faces (giving Kathy a welcome break from all that travel!) next year! Robert Vaughan will be joining me in France next June, Selah Saterstrom will be joining me in Iceland next October, and Kathy Fish and I will be welcoming you back to our home state of Colorado in August!
A 12-week creative incubator to get your work across the finish line
September 23-December 13
Whether your book is a flash novel, novella, memoir or creative nonfiction, if you are a dedicated writer, drawing on the skills of flash fiction, then this is the long-term container of inspiration, motivation, community and support you have been wanting to bring your ideas to fruition.
Are you tired of saying: one day I’ll finish my book?
Do you want to get started or write “the end” in 2024?
If so, you are in the right place.
Do you ever:
Feel unsure about your book idea?
Feel alone in the writing process and not sure what kind of support you need?
Feel directionless, like you are fighting or forcing your idea?
Feel impatient, like you just need to get to the end of a first draft so you can figure out what you’re really trying to say?
Wish you had a cheering squad to keep you motivated and inspired?
Wish you had a creative personal trainer, someone to hold you accountable and celebrate your progress?
I get it! I’ve spent more than 20 years navigating the ups and downs of writing a book: from the giddy idea phase to the steady, day by day of making it happen. And what I’ve learned from writing more than 10 books–from flash novels and collections to anthologies and craft books–is that my writing thrives when I have close, long-term relationships with mentors and teachers, regular exposure to new writing, and colleagues I can trust.
Love Your Book: 10 Days to Launch, Develop, and Gain Momentum on your Flash Novel, Novella, or Memoir August 19-30, 2024
You have a book inside you. It could be your first book or your seventh. It could be a novella-in-flash, a linked collection, a flash memoir, a flash novel or another sort of hybrid form. You love the short prose form, but you’re ready to think bigger–a book, but using the tools of the micro form.
When a story speaks to us–when it chooses us–we must listen.
Maybe you’ve already started. Maybe it’s still in your head. Either way, you suspect an untraditional book, using an untraditional structure, might need some unconventional methods. And you are right!
I call this the “flash book” in Going Short, and it is my personal sweet spot; I find the most fulfillment when I’m embracing both the narrow focus of the pieces themselves–the “bricks” of the story—as well as the long-term relationship of building a bigger structure with those bricks. I’ve written four flash novels as well as a linked collection, and since 2015, I’ve been leading groups of writers through the ups and downs of the book-writing process–from the giddy flush of a beginning all the way to the powerful, resonate ending.
Does this speak to you? If so, join me for a 10-day generative exploration and writing adventure, a “flash flood” with your book or book idea, and gain clarity, momentum, and enthusiasm on both your vision and your next creative steps.
Give yourself the gift of 10 days this August to play, experiment, and understand your story more fully, so that you can do the necessary work of bringing it to life!
Questions? Feel free to drop me a line. I’d love to work with you and your book!
xo Nancy
P.S. This 10-day, asychronous workshop is also designed to lead into the full Flash Novel Mastermind, opening in September, for those who are ready to keep going. Want to do both? Drop me a line!
Nancy Stohlman 