My Five Personal Writing Retreat Examples
I am a type A+ personality and over-achiever so most of my life I’ve burned the candle at both ends and sometimes added a second candle. There reaches a point when my body just periodically tells me to stop and gives me the choice of collapsing or losing my mind. It’s at this extreme when I have taken the time for a personal writing retreat.
I’ve always wanted to write but I’m not the writer who can scribble for ten minutes here and there on a coffee break or while I’m sitting in the car waiting for my kids to get out of school. I need peace and quiet to write and I need uninterrupted time.
Cabin in the mountains retreat.
So once upon a time when I was stretching beyond the point of further expansion, I rented a cabin in the mountains on a lake in April for four days. Leaving my family behind, I looked forward to some alone time and writing in the peace and quiet.
The cabin was rustic and I had to build a fire to stave off the cold but it was so worth it. I woke up to snow which is a rare event in my life. There is something about snow that seems to make the world more peaceful and quiet.
I spent the next few days next to the fireplace writing and editing a book I was working on.
It was heaven!