Get ready to write!
Welcome to Helen Sword’s annual 5-day Stay-Home Writing Retreat!
To get started, click on the Getting Ready page and
Every morning for the next 5 days, you’ll receive an email directing you to your Before Writing and After Writing videos for that day.
If you get lost, you can return to this homepage at any time. Day by day as we progress through the week, each square bird icon below will metamorphose into a round portal leading to your videos for that day.
We’d love you to share your daily experiences (and, if you wish, samples of your experimental writing) with us in the Comments section at the bottom of each retreat page for feedback from your fellow participants. Please leave generous feedback for others in return.
Please watch this 11-minute Getting Ready video before the retreat begins.
Sunday 9 Aug: Getting Ready
Monday 10 Aug: Social Goals
Tuesday 11 Aug: Physical Goals
Wednesday 12 Aug: Aesthetic Goals
Thursday 13 Aug: Creative Goals
Friday 14 Aug: Emotional Goals
Daily Retreat Pages
Getting ready
1. Social goals
2. Physical goals
3. Aesthetic goals
4. Creative goals
5. Emotional goals
If you have any questions or difficulties to report, please contact us via email, and we’ll get back to you as quickly as we can.
We wish you an enjoyable and productive 5 days of writing on retreat!