The Fountain Revision Method
Re-see your draft. Re-see yourself. Finish the book only you can write.
In six weeks, you will have a draft you can finally see whole: a map of the book, a plan you trust, real pages of a next draft, and a method you'll return to for every book that follows.
October 4 – November 14, 2026 · Six Weeks
See your project clearly.
A method for seeing again. Clearings that quiet the doubt. Four live coaching calls. A practice you'll keep.
Drafting asks you to live inside the work. You follow every impulse, you put everything in, you make yourself vulnerable on the page. That closeness is what makes a draft worth revising at all.
Revision asks for something else entirely. It asks you to see the book from the outside, the way a reader will, without the memory of the morning you wrote each sentence. Almost nobody teaches this second skill, so writers do the thing that feels like revising and isn't. They fix sentences inside chapters that shouldn't exist. They polish a broken book to a shine, and they can do it for years.
Over six weeks we'll teach you to look before you fix, and then to work in an order that holds.
Chelsea and Kim teach with humility, grace, experience, curiosity, and humor. The sheer amount of resources, craft lessons, and support to pursue a creative path will continue to inspire me for years to come.
Four live coaching calls with Chelsea Bieker & Kimberly King Parsons
The heart of the experience.
Four times across the six weeks, we gather live on Zoom. Bring your draft, your questions, and whatever you hit that week. No two revision plans look alike, so these calls are where the individual work happens. Every session is recorded if you can't attend live.
Alongside the calls, recorded craft classes arrive with the tools each week asks for, yours to work through at your own pace.
The Craft Clearings
If you know The Fountain, you know our Clearings: guided audio tracks set to frequencies that carry you through visualization and into a deeply receptive state, where real change becomes possible.
For this course we've made new Clearings you won't find anywhere else.
Meet The Revision Deck
Prompts for seeing your draft again.
After the response to the Prism Deck in The Writing Reset, we've made a custom Revision Deck for this course: a digital deck of prompts, each one a way of looking at your draft you haven't tried. Draw one when you're stuck between passes, when a chapter has gone flat in your hands, when you've stared at a page so long you've stopped seeing it. You never know which card is waiting until you turn it over. And when the six weeks end, the deck stays with you, for every draft after this one.
Deck
Draw a card. See your draft again.
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I love knowing that all the wisdom conveyed is Kim and Chelsea-sanctioned, and that it includes the stuff you don't learn in an MFA program. I felt like a wizard learning the tricks of my trade, except — surprise — all the tricks are already within me.
Everything inside The Fountain Revision Method
This is for you if...
You have a draft and no idea where to begin. You've been polishing for months and suspect it isn't working. You know what's wrong and falter at the marching through. You've revised alone before and would like company this time. Fiction or memoir, both welcome. Wherever your draft is, if what you need is a way to see it clearly, the Method will meet you there.
Your guides
We're Chelsea Bieker and Kimberly King Parsons, bestselling and award-winning fiction writers with more than thirty years of combined teaching experience, at Tin House, Columbia, Catapult, Center for Fiction, Pacific University, Hugo House, and beyond. We built The Fountain because traditional workshops address technique and miss the deeper work of dissolving the blocks that keep writers from the page. Revision is where those blocks surface most.
The Fountain is possibly the most unexpected act of generosity I have seen by any writers. You both already have this unbelievably inspiring creative friendship, and now to share what you have cultivated is incredible… and moving.
