So this is our last night in the Chipeta cottage, in beautiful Ouray, under the hospitality of the perfect Paul and Becky. Tonight we had a reading with wine (and O'Douls for me). Please see the photo to view the wonderful writers at said reading. This was a lovely, perfect ending to a very productive journey.During our listening journey we heard about tarantulas eating into a man's brain, a compound fracture in a quarry, a ballsy woman in overalls with a cigar, and a girl being abandoned at a rock concert. I read 1/2 of my first chapter of my complete (yay!) manuscript, and freewoman read her first chapter of the 25 she has written while here. Only people doing meth could have been more productive. Then after everyone read a piece of writing, we talked about literature, tattoos, and people who go to the emergency room with animals embedded in their bodies. There was words, wine and actual guffaws. It was perfect. This journey made us cry, made us smell, made us mad, but it definitely made us better writers.
We've decided to keep this blog. We may not post twice a day, but we will definitely track our progress to finish, make it comprehensible (okay that's mostly my problem not Freewoman's) and get published. Yippee!
Now that we have lived through it, we highly recommend putting yourself through this. Just let us know and we'll put you in touch with Paul and Becky, muses extraordinaire.
5 comments:
What a wonderful experience, and I feel privilaged to have experienced it (however vicariously) through the two of you! If you can, do keep posting to this blog - if it helps you to keep your creative juices flowing, it would certainly help others feel inspired to do the same! Congratulations (or condolances?) on the completion of your retreat.
Congrats to you! What a wonderful adventure. We missed you and look forward to seeing you soon!
Kudos and Congrats, writerly two!
It must feel good.
Three cheers (more if you have the wind) for the Freewomen of Letter!
I have loved your blog.
Re-post. Original grammar errors removed and stuff:
Two of the most memorable (and, unfortunately, visual) images I've run across lately: "Only people doing meth could have been more productive" and "...we talked about literature, tattoos, and people who go to the emergency room with animals embedded in their bodies."
I'm assuming you're not talking about parasites. Hmmm.
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