Saturday, January 18

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7:30 - 8:10 am 

​Prayer & Pilates                                                                 

Amy Hamilton

Huron Room

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8:15 - 8:45 am

Breakfast                                                                                 

Dining Room 

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9:00 - 9:30 am

Devotions & Worship                                                       

Catherine McNiel & Riley Vandermaas

Great Lakes Room

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9:45 - 10:30 am

Plenary Session                                                                    

Dawn Anderson

The Aspiration Behind Our Writing

Great Lakes Room

 

10:30 - 10:45 am 

​Break                                                                                     

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10;45 - 11:30 am

Workshop Sessions                                                         

                                               

Peggy Sue Wells

Michigan East Room

Plotting Pivotal Plots and Shaping Sensational Settings

Increase suspense and interest in your story through plots and subplots. Weave your unique spin on the nine original plots, enhanced through the point of view that best serves your tale. Sensational settings come in four forms from nearly invisible to an active main character. Enhance your story with time, place, and mood so three-dimensional that the setting is essential to the tale.

 

Linda Taylor

Michigan West Room

Writing Real

Flannery O’Connor wrote, “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information to last him the rest of his days.” And, by extension, plenty to write about! In this interactive writing session, we’ll learn some techniques for mining our lives for material to write about and discuss how to tell those bits of our story in the most compelling ways possible. This session helps people find the theme in any piece of work and give it meaning. 

 

Kelli Worrall

Ontario Room

 

Noon

Lunch                                                                                       

Dining Hall

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1:00 - 1:45 pm

Plenary Session                                                                     

Dawn Anderson

The Audience for Our Writing

Great Lakes Room

 

1:45 - 2:00 pm

​Break                                                                                           

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2:00 - 2:45 pm

Workshop Sessions                                                             

                                               

Peggy Sue Wells

Michigan East Room

Well Said: Drafting Dynamic Dialog

Great dialog is quoted for generations. Here are the do’s and don’ts of effective dialog including styles of speech, clue words, transitions, what to do with profanity, and what words should never appear in your dialog. Fill your story with conversations that are clever, concise, and crucial.

 

Linda Taylor

Michigan West Room

Get Those Articles Out the Door!

Let’s talk about writing articles and their accompanying query letters, organizing your submission process, following submission guidelines, and getting published. After this session, you’ll be ready to take those articles currently sitting in neat little folders on your computer and get them out the door and into publication. Learn how to find and meet publication guidelines, submit, and keep track of submissions. 

 

Kelli Worrall

Ontario Room

 

3:00 - 3:45 pm

Writing Prompt Workshop                                               

Tracy

Great Lakes Room  

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4:00 - 5:00 pm

Pickle Ball and Free Time                                                    

Jackie Freeman

Gym

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5:30 - 6:30 pm

Dinner                                                                                           

Dining Room  

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7:00 - 7:30 pm

Vespers & Worship                                                                   

Catherine McNiel & Riley Vandermaas

Lake Superior Chapel

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8:00 pm

Cookies & Hot Cocoa                                                         

Fellowship Lounge

Read Aloud Sharing of original works by Maranatha Writers