Five Years a Writer

Whether indoors or out, writers took the space they wanted for the work they needed to do.    Question : When is a retreat actually an advance?  Answer : When we join with others to do our creative work with focus and intention. Deborah Schnitzer and I facilitated our second annual Writing Retreat this past weekend and, once again, we and the eight participants experienced the advances that can be made when we give ourselves the time and space to be fully who we are as Writer. During the conversations and the shared reading of our work, I took notes; it is the only way I can (a) remember anything and (b) make meaning of what I am hearing. My practice is to then re/view those notes the day after the retreat ends and to pull from them the key points that resonate with me as a new week begins. True, sometimes I cannot read my own writing and sometimes that writing doesn’t cohere into sense. But when it does, the words captured with pen on paper hold the wisdom arising fro...