I really liked the idea of spending an entire weekend surrounded by wonderful writers, as everyone knows writing can be very isolating. I was also hoping to get some advice on the hugely daunting task of restructuring and editing my young adult fantasy novel. | Read more… | Read more…
I’m glad modern keyboards aren’t totally silent, it actually makes a difference to hear other people bashing away…and knowing they can hear when I’m not…do I actually think people are judging me because I’m not typing? Probably not, but I am.
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Over the winter I’d dropped out of the habit of regular writing for a few different reasons and this was the perfect opportunity to reconnect with my writing mojo, and on the back of that to get some proper immersion into a short story I was making much slower progress on than I would like.
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I mostly wanted to see if I could just crank the handle and have words come out in a pleasing order. I’ve also been spectacularly impressed that Roz & Jo and the rest of the tribe/cult actually went off and did something many people talk about, and I guess this was an obvious way that I could lend some support.
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What was useful about the retreat was being with a group of writers who were all working – this was pretty inspiring. It also meant that we could have long and involved conversations about e.g. setting, character motivation, structure & POV (among other topics!)
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