Sunday, I returned from three and a half days in Vermont at Kindling Words East--a retreat for authors, illustrators, and editors. It's an incredible experience: time to write, talk about writing, and think about writing. I left  full of new knowledge, eager to dive back in to my work, and more centered. Life had me a little jangly-edged lately ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I left my CC with FabHusband, packed up, and headed north to Burlington, VT for Kindling Words East.

I'd been dying to attend KW ever since I heard about it years ago. It's for published children's book authors and editors only, which gives it a different feel from an SCBWI conference. It also had a blend of craft-focused lectures in ( Read more... )

 On Saturday, my writing group went on its first-ever mini-retreat. We met early, wrote all day, broke for lunch, wrote in the afternoon, and read at the end of the day. We came up with a few goals for the group, and it got each of us thinking about our work in new ways. It was pretty rockin.

I set out to write 5,000 words on my Secret New Project, ( Read more... )

I'm retreating.

And writing.

And eating great food.

And enjoying the memory of yesterday's boat ride and sunshine (hello again, rain).

And drinking a little wine in the evenings.

And loving every second of the fabulous company I get to share.

And making *so much* progress on my project (I finally figured out the arc of the story! Yay, me!).

And Iooking ( Read more... )