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Beach Writers Retreat Curriculum

By RS On June 4, 2010 2 Comments

I’m in my third day of my own self-designed writer’s retreat, which I’m calling the Beach Writers Retreat. The self-imposed exile from FaceBook has not been 100% successful. It really is an addiction and I’ll have to wean myself of off it slowly. The same goes with email. However, I am getting in the habit of turning off the Wi-Fi and focusing on the writing. Case in point, I’m writing this on MSWord and I’ll post it once I’m back online. So for the moment, I don’t have any distractions from incoming emails, temptations to surf the web, and so on.

One aspect of this retreat that’s been so far successful is getting off the computer by 8:00 pm. That’s when I spend the rest of the evening reading, or knitting and listening to an audiobook (more on that in a future post).

Now because I’m the only writer on this retreat

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