writing retreats Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/writing-retreats/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:23:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing Retreats – what can they do for us? https://booksbywomen.org/writing-retreats-what-can-they-do-for-us/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-retreats-what-can-they-do-for-us/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:44:20 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14717 Writers all work in different ways. I started writing when my children were young so I was soon expert at grabbing small pieces of time whenever I could. I was forever scribbling ideas and scraps of dialogue or thoughts in a notebook – whether I was in a doctor’s surgery waiting room with the children […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/writing-retreats-what-can-they-do-for-us/feed/ 1 14717 Writing in Community: You Don’t Have To Do It Alone https://booksbywomen.org/writing-in-community-you-dont-have-to-do-it-alone-by-laura-munson/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-in-community-you-dont-have-to-do-it-alone-by-laura-munson/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:02:13 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13108 Laura Munson is the author of the New York Times and international bestselling memoir “This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness” She tells us why writing in community can bring out people’s voice. “I write in a solitude born out of community”—Terry Tempest Williams I am home from […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/writing-in-community-you-dont-have-to-do-it-alone-by-laura-munson/feed/ 7 13108 What I Learned from my Writing Retreat https://booksbywomen.org/what-i-learned-from-my-writing-retreat/ https://booksbywomen.org/what-i-learned-from-my-writing-retreat/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:15:43 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12625 Facing my empty nest and a ticking clock, I finally decided to plunge into the writing life. Writing more seemed too obvious so I searched for conferences or classes. I came across a “retreat” offered by the author of a bestselling memoir I’d recently read. Though I hadn’t done anything like this before, I was […]

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