ABROAD WRITERS’ CONFERENCE has been offering Full-Length Manuscripts Edit & Critique Workshops for Six years. This highly successful workshop has helped numerous writers get their manuscripts published. This December, we’re planning on holding a special Full or Partial Manuscript Retreat at St. Or...
Kate introduced the conversation by saying that the two books were set more than 1000 years apart but both involved women – one young, one middle-aged – seeking monastic life albeit for different reasons, the former to live a life of the intellect and the latter to retreat from the world...
Another popular place for writers and painters is Blackwell Arts and Crafts House near Bowness-on-Windermere. The house was once the rural retreat of the Holts family who owned the famous Manchester Brewery. It’s packed full of art deco features, mosaic floors, and beautiful wooden panelling...
That is, until she attended a retreat with me! Sarah is my first long time student and client to be on the show and she’s a treasure. Sarah’s written a gorgeous book Desire, Mystery, and Belonging and we discuss its long beautiful evolution and much more. ...
Lazar's column The Back Room, A Cozy Retreat for Writers & Readers, and "are little "seeds of ideas" that sprouted in my brain while driving to work or before falling asleep. Not enough to flesh out into novels, by any means, but insistent enough to require capturing, all the same."...
Writing is a solitary profession for the most part, but sooner or later, we realize we need a network of people, from beta readers to editors and eventually readers. Some writers retreat, discouraged by unkind comments or unsupportive friends or family, believing that someday, somehow their wor...
Finally, I would go toShunkoin Templein Kyotofor a Zen meditation retreat. I stayed here before leaving Japan. The temple is within a large complex of 50 temples, Myōshinji. Some of the temples are over 400 years old. The two oldest ones emanate a powerful mauri that is difficult to de...
The journey to change is hard, with the characters getting knocked down repeatedly. At first, they may not get up right away; they’ll retreat to their old ways because they don’t want to be hurt again. But struggling back to their feet and pushing forward is a sign they realize the...
She also has a writers retreat that she will hosting along with Silver Compass Tours – known for their fine wine and food tours – in Italy in spring 2018 (!). Find out more at WriteInTheWild.com Leave a comment Posted in Writing and tagged athens ga, Katherine Cerulean, Katiedid Lang...
At that retreat we instituted a number of practices not typically used at tradi- tional technical and scientific conferences and workshops: the use of the writers' workshop as the only or primary way to "present" papers, shepherding work before and after workshopping it, a book series for ...