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Upcoming dates Writing encouragement Writing prompts FOR 2010 - 2011 OFFERINGS SEE Come Write with Me retreats and writing groups ending... Come Write with Jack– continuing! The impetus for this change is the clearer and clearer recognition that time is slipping away. The decades go by in a blink and I'm feeling a new urgency to get serious about practicing what I preach. It's time to focus on my own writing life. To give it priority. These have been wonderful years. Leading groups and retreats enabled me to meet and know so many fine writers and caring people. And what a gift it has been for me to have people with whom to share quotes and insights gleaned from books about writing craft and the writing life. Thank you for receiving all my many handouts. They will miss me at Kinkos! I may from time to time offer a writing retreat, just for the delight of seeing some of you again. I'll let you know if I'm planning something. In the meantime - I'll be canceling all other CWWM retreats for this year. I will continue to offer Grief Observed once or twice a year to benefit Hospice. And I will continue to host Jack Ridl's workshops as long as he cares to offer them. I do this because of late I find myself drawn more and more to writing poetry. And also because Jack is my kind of teacher. The kind that encourages and nurtures those of us struggling to come to expression – on the page. At this point in my life, it is a much more pleasurable way to learn craft than enrolling in an MFA program! So - thank you for these very good years. And thank you too, to Pat Schneider who was the invisible presence in all out circles of writing. Her method made us "want to write more" and kept us safe. We will write together again, either with Jack, or perhaps at some "reunion" retreat in the future. Until then - keep writing. It is the gift we give to ourselves. The gift that keeps on giving when we share it with others. Colette |
