{"id":957,"date":"2010-08-30T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T14:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2010-08-30T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T14:24:52","slug":"report-on-the-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/report-on-the-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on the retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second time this month, I’m back! This time from my in-person critique group’s fourth annual writing retreat. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The five of us who were able to make it convened at a cottage just east of Parry Sound, which turned out to be even more ideal than it sounded online. All the trees made it totally private, there was a big living room and kitchen for us to hang out it, lots of big windows for excellent views, and three of the four bedrooms had a little balcony!<\/p>\n


\n(The view from my balcony)<\/center><\/p>\n

I very quickly set up a writing spot down by the lake, where the was a bunkie with a deck, and a handy electrical outlet on the outside wall! It also came with handy log seats to act as water bottle\/notebook holder and foot rest:<\/p>\n

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One of the special features of this spot was that, because the cottage was on quite a high hill, I had to go down a whole lot of steps to get to it, which meant if I had any thoughts about heading back to the cottage for any sort of non-writing activity, I had this view to discourage me: <\/p>\n


\n(About half the the stairs you’d have to climb up to get to the cottage)<\/center><\/p>\n

Not that I ended up needing a great deal of encouragement to keep writing. This is the first time I was finishing a book at the retreat instead of starting one, and having all that plot and character development already in place created a lot of momentum. My goal was to finish the book by the end of the retreat, and I have returned victorious! I typed “The End” at 9:20pm on the last night we were there. I got down about 29,000 words in four days, bringing the total for the book to just over 73K.<\/p>\n

I think it can be said that a most fun and productive time was had by all.<\/p>\n


\n(All of us on the dock–sorry, this was the best lighting we could get!)<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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