Writing Retreating and Writer Goaling
My Darlings My Dear, Currently, I am at my writer's retreat in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is the retreat when I get together with the same lovelies I have been getting together with for the last ten years. The core group is made up of mostly YA (young adult) and MG (middle grade) and PB (picture book) authors, with a few of us who have also self-published rom-com (me!) and romantic fantasy. We love getting together and gossip and trading horror stories and successes and even finances. My writer friends drink wine and I drink my tea (Earl Grey Green Tea, for those who are still reeling over my choice to be dry but caffeinated). Sometimes there's singing, many times there's dancing, and on an occasion or two, there may or may not have been a "pee tree" involved. ;o) During these retreats, we like setting goals and attempting to achieve them. Mine this time around have included a lot of housekeeping I like to put off. Things like ...