Writer’s retreat hupla!

It’s been a while since I last blogged, main reason being that I recently attended my little bro’s wedding in Mauritius. Bloody amazing! It’s a strange kind of wonderful watching the boy who once burnt my doll’s head off in a fire get married. He did me proud and it was the most beautiful, most unique wedding I’ve ever attended.

But the reason I’m blogging is that the weekend before I flew out, I went on a literary retreat to the Cotswolds with three good friends who also happen to be writers too. I guess us writer types gravitate towards one another and as a lot of my mates work in media, it makes sense a lot of them are aspiring novelists too, I guess that comes with the territory.

Anyway, it was fabulous and I’d really recommend it! Sure, there are loads of professional literary retreats you can attend but they cost a bomb. We simply hired a lovely little cottage for about £30 a night per person, cheap as chips and freedom to set you own agenda.

We had a lovely pub lunch beforehand, critiquing each other’s work (I put the new book I’m working on forward and it got a fab response). Once again, I was surprised at how other people can notice things in your writing that never even occurred to you. It was great reading their work too, all their different talents and dreams and passions all wrapped up in ink and paper. Then we simply wrote… and wrote… and wrote. While also drinking and breaking for food. The weather was stunning and the location gorgeous, horses galloping past on the road outside, realms of green fields unfolding ahead of us, owls diving for prey in the middle of the night as we sat in the garden, chatting. 

So… if you have some writer friends, go book yourself a cottage for the weekend and get writing!

x

PS. Reading Marked by mother and daughter duo, PC and Kristin Cast, really enjoying so far, will be back soon with a review.