My friend Katherine Hyde was at the 2010 Orthodox Writers Week at the Beach at Colonyhouse in Rockaway, Oregon, last week, and here’s a little of what she had to say in her post, Advancing through a Retreat:
A retreat is an escape from all obligations and distractions (especially if your location is internet-free, as ours was). It leaves you alone with that most fickle of friends, your imagination. » Read more..
Rural Tennessee writers' refuge,HillHouse Writers Retreat
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Interview with Ron Heacock and Karen Walasek
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I just had a conversation with Ron Heacock and Karen Walasek of HillHouse Writers Retreat, a 34-acre farm and writers’ bed and breakfast.
Imagine country living without the work — sitting on the front porch listening to the birds, watching a cat purring in a pool of sunlight, stretching your eyes to the distant horizon as the Tennessee hills stretch out at your feet. » Read more..
Do you like puzzle games? I’m talking about an adventure game that takes you from one puzzle to the next, through a story line built into a world of graphics and music and characters. Like a lot of games, they capture a fundamental truth about life. » Read more..
Maybe your budget, job, or family commitments keep you from getting away for a week to concentrate solely on your writing. Or maybe you just got back from a longer writing retreat, and now it’s time to make that investment pay off. You can use the same principles as in the extended writing retreat to structure your writing life for the long haul. » Read more..
A lot of writers struggle to get their ideas on paper. They feel the urge to complete a novel or long nonfiction, but can’t seem to concentrate on it. The project calls to them when they’re in the midst of work and kids and plans, but when they sit down to write, they can’t escape the distractions. Through it all, the nagging little critic inside their head says, “Everybody knows you’re a failure.” » Read more..
At the beginning of our interview, my friend Suzanne LaGrande talked about a lesson she learned in the process of rewriting her screenplay. The nugget — that I think a lot of us will identify with — is that we often think we’re finished when we’ve only just begun. » Read more..
