Advancing to the rear
Well, my last minute idea for a Writer's Retreat flew like a lead balloon. No surprise. But it does mean that I must retreat from, ahem, my idea for a retreat...

However several people did indicate they would be interested if I arranged something of the kind with adequate lead time. How does some weekend in September work? I have found two possibilities for relatively isolated cabins near a beach which are currently not booked for the entire month of September, meaning that we could pick our writer's weekend. Size limit would be four writers (or other creatives), including myself. Cost would be around $50 a night or less (depending on several factors.) We would be talking three nights, either Thursday through Sunday or Friday through Monday.

If you are interested, please respond here with which weekends work for you. If there is enough interest I will handle booking the cabin and other arrangements.

A limited number of spouses would be welcome (and would bring individual costs down), but one wonders if having loved ones underfoot would be conducive to the writing process. (We have to suffer for our art, don't we?)

In any case I am still going on a personal writing retreat this coming week. My parents have offered to locate their motorhome in an isolated camping area near their place (they live near Newport OR) and I will be using that for my home base while I attempt to commit as many bits to disk as possible.