#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.
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That's so wonderful that you're at your Writing Project's Writing Retreat and writing as you're walking. Dare I say I'm jealous? I was involved with the Long Island Writing Project for like 30 years, until it ended due to administrative issues. We did place based writing at a national historic site, where we also hiked and stopped and wrote. It was wonderful! Enjoy your retreat! Sounds divine.
ReplyDeleteI love writing in the woods! Your retreat sounds fun and bucket-filling. Your notes on place influencing writing made me realize that being post-surgery housebound has really stifled my writing this past week. Hoping my own walk outside today will improve my next few posts!
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