I've moved on to third week of self-imposed writing retreat, this time alone in a house in Savannah, Georgia, overlooking a vast marsh that extends out to the Savannah River. Thanks to good friends, Paul and Carla, for the loan of the house. Now blogging after the fact from notes taken while there. No internet, except at nearby coffee shop, but I didn't go to Savannah to blog. Went there to work on my manuscript---and did---completed new drafts of six more chapters---most productive week yet---yay!
Six whole days of silence and solitude. In the words of Virginia Woolf, six "pure and rounded pearls." I slept, ate, breathed, and lived in my story. A few words exchanged with the grocery clerk, with a fisherman on the boardwalk, and two short trips to the coffee shop to check e-mail. Little other communication. No radio except in my head, no news except for my daily phone call with dear and supportive husband Moe, no music but birdsong, no TV or movies. Only walking, yoga, meditating, thinking, and writing. Mmmmm. Memorable. dkm
4 comments:
Congrats on all those chapters!
And that retreat sounds great too. I wouldn't mind a week like that :)
Ah ha, VW knew all about the needs of women writers!! What a gift to have that week of silence and solitude (two of my favourites!).
I love that photo of the boardwalk disappearing into the distance.
It is good for us to be 'unplugged' for a while. My worry is always how much I will have to deal with (especially email) when I go online again.
Savannah is another of my Gone with the Wind 'names'!!
Jane, you will entice me yet---to read GWTW---can you believe I never have? Have lived in Atl for 40 years---have been to the requisite museums and seen the movie multiple times--- know the legendary lines---but have never read the book---and frankly, my dear, I DO give a damn---because one dare not die without reading it :-) First thing on my list as soon as I get home! But then again, I'll think about that tomorrow . . . .
Your photos made my blood pressure drop. a divine week
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