Rainforest Writer’s Retreat
Syne, Kai, and I headed out to the Olympic Peninsula and spent a wonderful four-day weekend at the Rainforest Writers Retreat at Lake Quinault. We have a lakeside cabin, with all the comforts of home. The event was put on by the fine folks at Fairwood Press.
We had a blast, did some hiking (although much of this was mitigated by the constant rainfall – hey, it’s a rainforest after all), saw lots of old friends and made some new ones, too.
I hope it’s running next year; we’d definitely like to go again.
Even with child wrangling, the long drive, and other distractions, I managed to double my normal daily word count and drafted to the midpoint of Mortal Coils (which puts me about a week a head of schedule!). I feel pretty good about that.
We had a blast, did some hiking (although much of this was mitigated by the constant rainfall – hey, it’s a rainforest after all), saw lots of old friends and made some new ones, too.
I hope it’s running next year; we’d definitely like to go again.
Even with child wrangling, the long drive, and other distractions, I managed to double my normal daily word count and drafted to the midpoint of Mortal Coils (which puts me about a week a head of schedule!). I feel pretty good about that.
posted by Eric Nylund at 4:48 AM
5 Comments:
I'm glad to hear that you're ahead of schedule on Mortal Coils i really can't wait to read it, if it's anything like your other books i'm sure that it will be a big success.
That place looks really relaxing and it's not that badly priced (of course, I grew up in the Redneck Riviera so I may have a slightly skewed concept of what resort pricing should be). I'll have to tell the husband about it. It is good to hear you're getting Mortal Coils banged out. I'm very much looking forward to reading it.
Congrats on staying ahead of schedule. Sounds like a nice get away with the fam. Take care.
Thanks everyone. 100,000 words to go....
Long ago, my Father took us on vacation to the great outdoors--Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Peuget Sound (sp?), Mount Hood, whole bunch of other places. I can only imagine how nice it must be out there, with some measure of peace and quiet too. Good stuff.
100K words, huh?
A feat easily accomplished by the man!
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