Comments on: Plan a Great Writer’s Retreat http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/ About the craft and business of genre fiction Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:18:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10121 Wed, 09 May 2007 22:46:34 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10121 Kelly, we're thrilled you love your Alphie and are creating masterful works of writely wonder on it. We'd be lost without ours as well. And that's AMAZING progress at your retreat, plotting out a novel and doing rep work on another. Good going! :) Kelly, we’re thrilled you love your Alphie and are creating masterful works of writely wonder on it. We’d be lost without ours as well. And that’s AMAZING progress at your retreat, plotting out a novel and doing rep work on another. Good going! :)

]]> by: Kelly http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10098 Wed, 09 May 2007 13:36:13 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10098 Sounds like you had a great time. Our chapter had its annual writer's retreat last weekend too and it was a blast! I came away with one novel fixed and a new one roughly plotted. No sooner did I get home than inspiration hit and I grabbed my Alphie (best contest win EVER and definitely getting a workout) and wrote a brand new scene that worked so perfectly I nearly wept with joy. Probably would have if I hadn't been so busy dancing around the living room pumping my arm in victory... Sounds like you had a great time. Our chapter had its annual writer’s retreat last weekend too and it was a blast! I came away with one novel fixed and a new one roughly plotted. No sooner did I get home than inspiration hit and I grabbed my Alphie (best contest win EVER and definitely getting a workout) and wrote a brand new scene that worked so perfectly I nearly wept with joy. Probably would have if I hadn’t been so busy dancing around the living room pumping my arm in victory…

]]> by: Gloria Hildebrandt http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10023 Tue, 08 May 2007 14:05:42 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10023 That sounds absolutely fabulous. I'm envious. What a great idea. You've got me thinking. Although I am currently in the research stage of my latest work. But dedicating time to the work instead of fitting it into spare time is a more productive way to go. That sounds absolutely fabulous. I’m envious. What a great idea. You’ve got me thinking. Although I am currently in the research stage of my latest work. But dedicating time to the work instead of fitting it into spare time is a more productive way to go.

]]> by: Juliet http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10017 Tue, 08 May 2007 12:58:31 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10017 There's nothing like uninterrupted blocks of writing time away from the distractions of home. Congrats on getting so much work done, wish I'd been there. I'm currently spending two days per week writing at the local Writers' Centre, where I'm getting a quiet, congenial work space in exchange for mentoring an aspiring writer. Even though I have a perfectly good study at home and no other humans around during the day, I get a heap more done on the days I work away. There’s nothing like uninterrupted blocks of writing time away from the distractions of home. Congrats on getting so much work done, wish I’d been there. I’m currently spending two days per week writing at the local Writers’ Centre, where I’m getting a quiet, congenial work space in exchange for mentoring an aspiring writer. Even though I have a perfectly good study at home and no other humans around during the day, I get a heap more done on the days I work away.

]]> by: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10007 Tue, 08 May 2007 10:12:27 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10007 "Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to work, and someone you know or love was around, and somehow, not really understanding the space you need?" All the time, Kev. My 10-year old daughter. But she's a kid, so what can you do other than try to train them? Even then, it doesn't work all the time. :-) That's why the retreat is a godsend--a whole weekend of selfish, time-hogging writing. “Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to work, and someone you know or love was around, and somehow, not really understanding the space you need?”

All the time, Kev. My 10-year old daughter. But she’s a kid, so what can you do other than try to train them? Even then, it doesn’t work all the time. :-)

That’s why the retreat is a godsend–a whole weekend of selfish, time-hogging writing.

]]> by: Kev http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10004 Tue, 08 May 2007 09:36:23 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-10004 Thanks for this post. This sounds like a lot of fun. There is certainly a kind of buzz, albeit quiet and focused in writers bring their private writing space into a public privacy of equals. I have often wondered what it would be like to bring a group of writers into a situation like that for an extended period of time, I suspect writers, unlike some social gatherers, if they are sufficiency strong in their relationship with their work can have a mutual sense of not trying to attract attention to themselves while still being together and being stronger for it. Have you ever found youerself in a situation where you wanted to work, and someone you know or love was around, and somehow, not really understanding the space you need, while the company you love, somehow do something to break the engagement with the work? Thanks for this post. This sounds like a lot of fun. There is certainly a kind of buzz, albeit quiet and focused in writers bring their private writing space into a public privacy of equals.

I have often wondered what it would be like to bring a group of writers into a situation like that for an extended period of time, I suspect writers, unlike some social gatherers, if they are sufficiency strong in their relationship with their work can have a mutual sense of not trying to attract attention to themselves while still being together and being stronger for it.

Have you ever found youerself in a situation where you wanted to work, and someone you know or love was around, and somehow, not really understanding the space you need, while the company you love, somehow do something to break the engagement with the work?

]]> by: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9978 Tue, 08 May 2007 02:10:00 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9978 You can come hang out with us next year, Melissa. ;) That would be fun, actually: a WU writing retreat. Dreaming, dreaming... You can come hang out with us next year, Melissa. ;)

That would be fun, actually: a WU writing retreat.

Dreaming, dreaming…

]]> by: crystal http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9969 Mon, 07 May 2007 22:04:19 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9969 This sounds like such an incredible idea!! Now I just need to cultivate the right like-minded writer friends! This sounds like such an incredible idea!! Now I just need to cultivate the right like-minded writer friends!

]]> by: Melissa Marsh http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9968 Mon, 07 May 2007 21:47:34 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9968 My romance writing group does a writing retreat every year at a hotel in this little town about twenty miles away. We had the entire hotel to ourselves - lots of room to stretch out, eat good food, gab, and have fun. But now that I don't belong to them anymore, I am in sore need of a good writing retreat! My romance writing group does a writing retreat every year at a hotel in this little town about twenty miles away. We had the entire hotel to ourselves - lots of room to stretch out, eat good food, gab, and have fun. But now that I don’t belong to them anymore, I am in sore need of a good writing retreat!

]]> by: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9959 Mon, 07 May 2007 18:23:43 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9959 Hey, you guys are ruining my reputation as a curmudgeon! Hey, you guys are ruining my reputation as a curmudgeon!

]]> by: Elena Greene http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9950 Mon, 07 May 2007 15:42:06 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/05/07/plan-a-great-writers-retreat/#comment-9950 Don't listen to Kathleen when she says she's a bad cook. That pulled pork was yummy and as for the mango salsa, it was pure edible happiness. I netted a little more than 10,000 words for the weekend. It's sloppy stuff but I'm only in the second draft stage. Lots of good ideas to refine in the next draft. :) Don’t listen to Kathleen when she says she’s a bad cook. That pulled pork was yummy and as for the mango salsa, it was pure edible happiness.

I netted a little more than 10,000 words for the weekend. It’s sloppy stuff but I’m only in the second draft stage. Lots of good ideas to refine in the next draft. :)

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