BookBrain: Plan Your 2026 Writing Life

November 15-16, 2025

Workshop Leader: Connie May Fowler

Virtual Via Zoom

Agatha Christie famously said, “The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” There’s a great deal of truth to that. But it’s also true that it’s difficult to jot down your musings with wet, sudsy hands. Book Brain will help you identify ideas that will form the core foundation of your project and will provide concrete advice and exercises to ensure your writing goals. We’ll keep in mind that writing is alchemy, requiring a nimble and flexible approach. We will embrace our discipline as a practical art that requires self-knowledge and a curiosity-driven spirit each time we face the blank page. Come with ideas or come with none! The only thing Book Brain requires is an open mind. I

BookBrain: Plan Your 2025 Writing Life!

November 15-16, 2025

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern, Saturday, and Sunday

Get ready for 2026!

Sometimes, simply sitting down and writing seems like a monumental task. After all, there is always something else you can be doing. But something else is what prevents you from finishing (or starting) your book. BookBrain helps you discover inspiration, develop ideas, and organize your writing life so that you’ll have the most productive writing year ever.

Book Brain helps writers in all phases of a book’s creation: vague idea to development to finished draft. If your book is but a vague idea, BookBrain will get you started and help you maintain a writing practice that best benefits the planning and execution of your book. If your book is in development, BookBrain will help you deepen your ideas, characters, and plots, bringing them into alignment with the greater whole.

BookBrain is designed to spark your creativity and help you think in more surprising and original ways. It will, if used diligently, act as an accountability buddy.

BookBrain will help you track your book’s progress. Think of it this way: If you write one page a day, in a year you’ll have a 365 page manuscript, which means when you’re ready to revise, you’ll have plenty of material to play with, cut, and shape.

BookBrain helps you identify obstacles that prevent you from writing and helps you develop strategies to overcome those obstacles.

Each participant receives an InkBlossom BookBrain 2026 Literary Planner

Fee: $200

Non-refundable deposit due upon acceptance into the workshop: $50

Registration and Balance Payment Deadline: November 1, 2025

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Participants: Twenty persons maximum

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW:

BookBrain fills on a first-come basis.  Send Connie an email to make sure there is a slot available. If there is, she will email you payment instructions.

If yours is a manuscript-based workshop, your submission must be emailed no later than the Monday prior to your workshop date.

We cannot offer refunds on balances unless we are able to give your seat to another participant.