Before we walked onto this we drank some of this then sadly sent off one of our writers… sort of like this or maybe it was more like this you go girl! Then, it was back to the page. More word wrangling, more scene swapping, and then, cold pizza and a change of venue. […]
Archive | March, 2013
Day 3. When the writing gets serious. Also called committing to complete that… thing.
UncategorizedIf you are a human being, you will have struggled at least once in your life to complete … something. Be it a kindergarten drawing, a fat reducing exercise regime, your math homework or a scientific experiment designed to disprove the Quantum Zeno Effect. For writers, it’s not only the struggle to complete the poem, […]
March retreat, Day 2
UncategorizedYou know that thing where writers are in sync? Where women are in sync- and I am not talking about “that time of the month”, kind of syncing- just the place where you can find a common pace and go with it- no judgments, no qualifiers, no pretensions. I love that. A friend asked me […]
The March Retreat, Blue Mountain Beach, Day 1
UncategorizedDay One. We are here. The sun is shining and it is warm at the beach… if you are from Canada. Good thing one of us is. I have had 2 coffees and one beer. That is very good for me. It is early. Give a writer time. There will be many more beers. I […]