🏡 At-Home Writing Retreat: Cinderella Edition

Dates: 14 days over Christmas & New Year

Goal: 5-10k words of messy draft + story soup

Retreat Vibe: 🎶 Playlist · 🕯 tealights · 🥗 healthy snacks · 📝 half-day sessions

✅ Daily Schedule

• [ ] Ritual (10–15 mins) → light tealights, start playlist, open notebook
• [ ] Warm-Up (20–30 mins) → freewrite on a prompt / character sketch
• [ ] Main Session (2 hrs, with 10-min break) → messy drafting, fragments, story soup
• [ ] Wrap-Up (15–20 mins) → jot discoveries + questions in “story journal”
• [ ] Transition (optional) → walk / snack / read for inspiration

📅 Retreat Flow

Days 1–2: Arrival & Story Soup

• [ ] Explore Cinderella angle
• [ ] Write about “reliable sister” vs “golden child” dynamic
• [ ] Prompt: What’s the first image you see when you picture her life?

Days 3–4: Setting Immersion