...I wanted you to know, ,
that there's still a spot left for you in the November 9th -11th Coastal Writing Retreat. Check out the happy faces of this past weekend's retreat participants for an idea of how glad you'll be you came. (Thanks, Donna, Cindy, Dan, Alice, Robin, and Richard, for being such wonderful people to spend a weekend with!)
We had such a great time, and it was amazing to see words, ideas, and concrete plans for writing projects practically leap onto the page!
And check out the weather report:
Fri Nov 9: High 63° Low 38°. Sunny. Chance of rain: 0%. Sat Nov 10: High 66° Low 46°. Sunny. Chance of rain: 0%.
Sun
Nov 11: High 70°. Low 53°. Mostly Sunny. Chance of rain: 0%
Sounds great, doesn't it? (For a glimpse of Sunset Beach's famous sunrises and sunsets, visit my Facebook page.)
Here are the retreat details:
COASTAL WRITING RETREAT
Renew yourself, whether you are a practicing writer, closet writer, or as-yet-to-pick-up-the-pen writer! The techniques and prompts we'll use will spur your imagination, and can be used to create nonfiction, fiction, and/or poetry-the choice is yours. There'll be ample free time to savor your beautifully appointed private room with king-sized bed, private bath and balcony, the large porches with rocking chairs and swings, and the coastal setting.
WHERE: The Sunset Inn, 9 North Shore Dr., Sunset Beach, NC 28468
WHEN: This Friday, November 9 - Sunday, November 11, 2012
TO REGISTER: Contact the Sunset Inn at 888.575.1001 or 910.575.1000 (if you would like to handpick your room, view your choices here first, then call). Because the Inn is holding rooms for you, our participants, they are blocked off as unavailable online.
$419 includes retreat sessions, two nights' lodging, two breakfasts and Saturday lunch (hotel tax and Saturday dinner at a local restaurant not included). Register soon - this is a popular event. There are only a few spaces available. The Inn will hold your reservation with a credit card.
(For information about other offerings happening soon, visit www.wordplaynow.com/current.htm)
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And, no worries: if you can't make it this time, there's always February or March, 2013. Meanwhile, here's a quote for you
on the satisfactions of writing from Gifts of the Sea author
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured. And there is another personal satisfaction: that of the people who like to recount their adventures, the diary-keepers, the story-tellers, the letter-writers, a strange race of people who feel half cheated of an experience unless it is retold. It does not really exist until it is put into words.... For, paradoxically enough, the more unreal an experience becomes -- translated from real action into unreal words, dead symbols for life itself -- the more vivid it grows. Not only does it seem more vivid, but its essential core becomes clearer. One says excitedly to an audience, 'Do you see -- I can't tell you how strange it was -- we all of us felt...' although actually, at the time of incident, one was not conscious of such a feeling, and only became so in the retelling. It is as inexplicable as looking all afternoon at a gray stone of a beach, and not realizing, until one tries to put it on canvas, that is in reality bright blue."
Wishing you all the satisfaction and joys of writing, wherever you find yourself,
Maureen
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