Course description
Do you dream of writing your own book? Whether it's a non-fiction book, a family story, or a fictional work, you have to start. The course focuses specifically on how to kickstart writing, in how many ways your story could begin, and what means exist to keep the writer-self alive and support it.
The course instruction begins on Friday morning 9.10.2026, with accommodation for the previous night included in the course price. Any meals on 8.10. are paid for at cafe-restaurant Trapesa at normal prices.
Course program
Thursday 8.10.
Arrival and accommodation. Any meals on 8.10. are paid for at Trapesa at normal prices.
Friday 9.10.
06.00 Midnight Service and Matins. First Hour.
07.30–09.00 Breakfast
09.00 Well planned is half done. Or is it? Writing starts in many different ways, and do you even need to know what you want to write about? Playing with words leads to new paths, and from there you might find unexpected themes, methods, and wishes for your own writing.
12.00 Lunch
Do I shape the structure or do I live in the moment and write according to my feeling? Does structure restrict me, and do I only get inspired by inspiration? Why do I write, or can I choose not to write?
18.00- Ninth Hour. Vespers. Small Compline and tri-canon.
19.30 Evening meal
Saturday 10.10.
06.00 Midnight Service and Matins. Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom.
07.30–09.00 Breakfast
09.00 Good beginnings. What makes you keep reading a text? What holds you in its grip? A writer's first task is to read. Different texts limber up my linguistic thinking and shape my writing possibilities.
Lunch / Moleben, or prayer service, at 12.00
13.00 Now I'm starting, but I don't know where I'm going or when I'll stop. Keep writing alive with routines. The writer-self needs to be nourished, and sometimes it even needs artificial respiration. No one knows if anything will come of this in the end, but you just have to write. If it feels right, that is. Otherwise, it won't be finished. But don't think about finished. This moment and this section are enough for now.
18.00- Vigil
19.30 Evening meal
Sunday 11.10.
07.30–10.00 Breakfast
09.00- Third Hour. Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom. Panagia.
Check-out by 12.00.
On Sunday, the fruits of writing will be gathered into a common basket.
