#14 Writing Retreat

This year, I'm going to spend 31 days writing about places.  In my profession, I talk about place-based writing quite a bit.  I frame it like this when I share:  We believe in the power of including spaces in the process of writing.  Place-based writing is the concept that the place where we write may influence our thinking, impacting the writer’s perspective, engagement, ownership, and/or purpose.  I'm really jazzed up, thinking about where I will spend time as a writer in 31 different spaces this month and how I can use each post to share a little slice of my day. 

Today, the Pallottine Retreat Center.

Twice a year, my Writing Project Site hosts a writing retreat.  Around 30 of us gather and do all kinds of writing.  Today is our spring retreat, and I couldn't be happier!

I'm starting a walking group at our site (info pasted below photo), and today we kicked off our first meeting with a trail walk together.  It's so joyous to get lost in the woods with your writing group.  Today, place is definitely impacting my writing habit and my mood.  **The highlight I took in while focusing on the senses (our prompt for the walk) was the mostly dried up pond full of frog sounds.  

Here's a silly photo that I can't figure out how to get straight, but I'm posting anyway because this weekend is more about unplugging and doing some writing.  

So, I'll end this writing quickly so I can do more writing... lol.