Cornwall Writing Retreat

We like to find outstanding locations for our retreats. How about this one?

This is glorious Port Isaac on the North coast of Cornwall.

We called this retreat Write by the Sea and we were. Our house overlooked the sea, perched on a cliff top with uninterrupted views of the Atlantic. If that's not inspirational I don't know what is.

We held the retreat March 23rd to 27th and were joined by best selling author Chris Manby.

She had work of her own to do. This didn't stop her from holding two great workshops.  Chris Manby

Plotters Plotting

Firstly Plotting. Chris has a method of plotting that was new to all of us. Some of us were new to plotting at all!  Thanks to Chris I got a whole new book, apparently our of nowhere! Here we are hard at work.

The house as you can see, 

was light, bright and comfortable. Readers of this blog will know we like to keep our guests well fed.

Well it was nearly Easter!

A Cornish cream tea.

The second workshop was on writers block. Something that we have all claimed to suffer from at one time or another? Or did we really want to do the ironing?

Jane and Meg beat writers block with apple crumble.

Chris and Kirsten plot.

We were hoping to see Poldark galloping across the cliffs. In fact some of us thought about him quite a lot.

Chris,Meg,Vicky,Moira,Jane,Catherine and Kirsten.

We had such a lovely week together. New enthusiasm for our writing, new ideas to work on, new friends to cherish.

Thanks everyone for making it such a success, especial thanks to Chris, you were a star.

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