I came away with lots of questions answered about THE FIXER UPPER. We took turns talking about our work in progress, and brainstormed where needed. The best thing about the retreat is the chance to bounce ideas and questions off other published writers who understand this awful business of writing a book. and tons of poets and novelists gazing down at us. It’s a very evocative space, houses the NC Literary Hall of Fame, so as we sat there sipping our wine, we had Thomas Wolfe and Louis Rubin Jr. After dinner, we gathered in the lounge at Weymouth. You can’t have a writer’s retreat without wine! Also M&Ms–plain and peanut. I’d brought the black bean soup and salad stuff, and we had good crusty rolls–and wine. We all worked more in the afternoon, and then about 7 we broke for dinner. Lunch is potluck–out of the groceries we brought. Generally, some of us gather in the kitchen in the morning for coffee and breakfast, then we break up and go off to our corners to write. With all of us in attendance, we settled into our writing routine. I made my 10-page quota for THE FIXER-UPPER. Ain’t technology grand? Yesterday was a very good writing day.
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