# Plan the camp's schedule
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/organisations/writers-camps/plan-the-sessions

Set the writing blocks, meals and breaks for every day, the rooms, and the days that run differently.
The **Plan** is when things happen at your camp. You build one day, **Every day**, and it repeats across the camp. Then you change the days that differ. Each writing block becomes a real session in every room, and writers see the same plan in their own week.

## Build the day [#build-the-day]

1. Open the camp. It opens on the **Plan**.
2. Pick **Every day** in the strip of days.
3. On an empty plan, choose **Plan it myself** for one writing session to build on, or **Start from a sample day**.
4. Drag over the calendar to draw a block, or click **Add to schedule**. Type its name and press Enter.
5. Pick its kind at the top of the block: writing, meal, break, programme, arrive or leave, listening, or other. Drag its edges to change the times.

Everything saves on its own. Switch between **Day**, **Week** and **Month** at the top.

## Change one day [#change-one-day]

Pick a day in the strip and choose how it runs:

* **Same as every day**: it follows the template.
* **Own schedule**: it starts as a copy of the template that you change. Moving a block on that day does this for you.
* **Day off**: no sessions that day.

The same menu turns one weekday off across the whole camp, like every Saturday, and lets you add a short note such as "Arrival day".

## Add prep days [#add-prep-days]

Need a day to set up before the camp, or to wrap up after it? Click the small **+** before the first day or after the last one. A prep day only shows in your own plan. Writers, partners and the public page never see it, and it gets no sessions.

## Set the rooms [#set-the-rooms]

A writing block makes one session per room per day, with the meals and breaks inside it, so the same people carry on after lunch. Add, rename or remove rooms on **Sessions** with **Add room**, or under **Settings → Sessions**.

Want new groups after lunch? On **Sessions**, use **Split at Lunch** on the room. **Merge at Lunch** joins it back.

Set the camp's **Time zone** under **Settings → Sessions** too.

## Writing outside Aden [#writing-outside-aden]

If your writers work in another app or a shared folder, open **Settings → Sessions**, set **Where people write** to **Elsewhere** and paste the link. The plan and the seating still work. Writers get a button to that link instead of an Aden session.

## Fill every session at once [#fill-every-session-at-once]

**Session defaults**, under **Settings → Sessions**, gives every writing session a video call, a goal, a brief, a playlist link and tags. Set them for every room, for one room, or for one day. Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls need that account connected first.

<Callout>
  Removing a room or a day only removes its sessions when nobody is seated in them.
</Callout>

## Related [#related]

* [Seat writers in rooms](/docs/help/organisations/writers-camps/seat-writers)
* [Studio sessions](/docs/help/work-together/sessions)