AHHHHHH ABBY! I love all of this. Ironically, I am needing exactly this sort of time myself, and had somehow forgotten the good advice I give others about how to go and get it. I love that you could really take this time in all the senses of that, and am most of all so excited to see how you're connecting to your novel as a living, breathing work of art. Keep going, keep going. (Also have been wanting to read both the Patchett and the Cunningham---heard him on a podcast recently and he said such damn smart things).
This is lovely! I’m an academic writer so most of the time it is about just sitting down and cranking out some words but I went on a lovely Lake District retreat with poets and novelists (I had some last minute money to spend), and it was a delight! Run by professional musicians with the best food I’ve ever had in my life. One night we all read from our work and there was beautiful heartbreaking poetry and song, and I read “here’s 5 things that are wrong with the Labour Party!”
Abby, maybe if I had stayed in Oberlin for a single winter term we might've actually, you know, MET!
Thanks for the shout-out. I loved everything about your retreat except that you came to my side of town and didn't call me. :)
AHHHHHH ABBY! I love all of this. Ironically, I am needing exactly this sort of time myself, and had somehow forgotten the good advice I give others about how to go and get it. I love that you could really take this time in all the senses of that, and am most of all so excited to see how you're connecting to your novel as a living, breathing work of art. Keep going, keep going. (Also have been wanting to read both the Patchett and the Cunningham---heard him on a podcast recently and he said such damn smart things).
This is lovely! I’m an academic writer so most of the time it is about just sitting down and cranking out some words but I went on a lovely Lake District retreat with poets and novelists (I had some last minute money to spend), and it was a delight! Run by professional musicians with the best food I’ve ever had in my life. One night we all read from our work and there was beautiful heartbreaking poetry and song, and I read “here’s 5 things that are wrong with the Labour Party!”