This invitation-only program supports you to harness the ongoing momentum, accountability, and guidance you need to safeguard your creative practice and revise your existing novel manuscript.
Your goal is to complete another full pass through your novel, finishing with a solid draft in which the major building blocks of character and story arc are in the right place, doing the right things.
The approach is momentum over perfection. You won’t have time to get lost in the weeds making every sentence beautiful (though your sentences probably will become more beautiful), but you will deepen your understanding of what this story is trying to become and get it a lot closer to being there.
Create your custom revision plan so you have a map for this next stage of the work
#2: Clear the Channel with Leah:
Work on the unique challenges that come up for you around mindset, patterns, and emotional blocks, and receive your own personalized guided meditation tailored specifically to you
Support, witnessing, and the power of our collective brains and hearts applied to the evolving progress of your novel
The opportunity to have a chapter of your manuscript read, to ask targeted questions and receive supportive feedback
A block-releasing, intention-setting process to help you dream big about your desires for your novel, get clear on what your next level of challenges might be, and create a fresh vision statement for your writing
We meet for 4 vision cycles, with implementation and rest weeks in between. What’s a vision cycle? It’s the 4-week span of time that we’ll use to break down our work—long enough for real progress, short enough to work in without overwhelm.
Week 0:
Sept 15
Week 1:
Sept 22
Week 2:
Sept 29
Week 3:
Oct 6
Week 4:
Oct 13
Week 5:
Oct 20
(No call this week)
Week 6:
Oct 27
Week 7:
Nov 3
Week 8:
Nov 10
Week 9:
Nov 17
Week 10:
Nov 24
(No call this week)
Week 11:
Dec 1
Week 12:
Dec 8
Week 13:
Dec 15
Week 14:
Dec 22
Week 15:
Dec 29
(No call this week)
Week 16:
Jan 5
(No call this week)
Week 17:
Jan 12
Week 18:
Jan 19
Week 19:
Jan 26
Week 20:
Feb 2
Week 21:
Feb 9
Day & time of weekly gatherings: Tuesdays at 5:00pm Eastern (with the option to change according to availability if there’s consensus in the group)
There are no calls on Oct 20, Nov 24, Dec 29, and Jan 5.
A few beautiful words shared in the final week of the 2024 revision coaching container:
“I have this accumulation of pages, which was the intention, but there’s been this incredible side effect that I didn’t anticipate—this whole realignment with my identity as an artist and creative person. This has brought me back home to the place and person that had been beaten out of me.”
“I just wanted to say how precious and wonderful it is to have found a writing group such as ours! So safe, so encouraging, so expansive. I have spent many years searching for such a space.”
“I’m still in shock at how far this has brought me. This has been just a fantastic life experience.”
Heidi Reimer is a novelist, essayist, and writing coach based in Prescott, Ontario. Her debut novel, The Mother Act, follows the complicated relationship between an actress who refuses to abandon her career and the daughter she chooses to abandon instead. Heidi’s front row seat to this theatrical world began when she met and married an actor, and her immersion in motherhood began when she adopted a toddler and discovered she was pregnant on the same day. Heidi has tried to write or longed to write or resisted writing or feared writing or, finally, actually written for 38 years.
Find out more at www.heidireimer.com, and sign up for her biweekly letters exploring creative process, living with intention, and the journey into visibility.
Leah Fae is a certified Reiki Master, Kundalini yoga teacher, and trauma informed Hatha yoga teacher. She works with individuals and groups, designs and facilitates ecstatic dance gatherings, and leads ceremony, kirtan, meditation and sharing circles. She is passionate about dance as medicine, everyday magic, singing and music, astrology, growing food, building community, exploring nature, and learning how to be a good human. Learn more at www.leahfae.ca.
