If 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, […]
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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 […]
Testimonials: From the Mouths of Writing Babes
Creativity Events Fiction writing Inspiration Writing Writing retreats Writing tips“I had a wonderful three days of writing, planning, organizing, plotting. I worked on organizing the chapters of my work-in-progress, Book Two of the Moonlight Ridge Series. I enjoyed the companionship of the creative writers who attended the Write By the Water writers retreat in beautiful Blue Mountain Beach.. This was such a well planned, delightful […]
Write By the Water Fall 2012 Retreat Encapsulated
Creativity Events Inspiration Journal writing Poetry Publishing Uncategorized Writing retreats Writing tipsThings we learned Take notes. Blog later. This is the time to work on your novel. Get in the words- or for some of us- get rid of the words. Try to remember to take pictures. Of people. Working. Or don’t, maybe they would rather no one sees their pjs and bedhead hair. Sleep when […]
Preparing for a writing retreat: photo tutorial
Creativity Fiction writing Inspiration Journal writing Non-fiction writing Writing Writing retreats Writing tipsFirst, you will need one of these. And probably one of these. Don’t forget this. or this. Never mind. We have lots of that. After a day of doing this we will reward you with this. and then, you can enjoy this. unless you need to do more of this Hey, it’s your retreat. Just […]
Win a Fall Writing Retreat in Blue Mountain Beach, Florida.
UncategorizedWe know. You had a rough summer. The kids were all over you. The house needed attention. The dog died. The spouse spent too much time nagging/golfing/not cooking. Worst of all…the word count was slacking. And now? You have needs. We understand. Writers…write. Even when we aren’t anywhere near a pen or laptop, we’re still […]
The Quick Fire. Month ONE. In which I ask 10 writers 10 questions…
Uncategorized…and ask them to answer each in 10 words, or less. Well, writers, being writers…. SOME of them told me straight out, “Not going to happen.” One did the assignment twice, once wrong, once right. Such an overachiver! 😉 Others, did what most writers do, ignored the damn directions and forged ahead. I love that. Here are […]
It’s a whole new year… what will you do with it? Escape?
UncategorizedWe read to escape. We go to the movies to eat popcorn and live under the skin of a stranger for ninety minutes. And some of us… write to escape. It is inevitable that the world would intervene. That we’d feel the tug of chores or daily routine pull us out of our stories, away […]
A message from Norman Mailer.
Creativity Inspiration Writing Writing tipsNorman Mailer told me to.
