This past weekend I atttended my second writing retreat of the summer, and the setting was in beautiful Yarmouth, Maine. (This was my first one.) It was so much fun to hang out and write and talk and eat and pick blueberries with thirteen other children’s book writers. Here are a couple of pictures of [...]
Writing retreat
Today is the last day of our writing retreat. My favorite time to write is early in the morning. Here’s the view that greeted me as I began my day. Yesterday we spread out all over the first floor of the lodge in monastic silence, writing. When I was ready for a break, I headed [...]
This week I am away at a writers’ retreat on the beautiful shores of Lake Champlain, organized by my fellow writer-friend, Kate Messner. If you haven’t yet discovered her books, you should. She’s an extremely multitalented writer. There are about twenty other children’s book writers here. We write all day, and then have dinner together. [...]