Happy new writing year! How far in advance do you block out writing time? I plan my retreats for the whole next year at the end of the one before. There might be more to come, as I am testing a new venue in January, but every couple of months, we have a couple ofContinue reading “Happy new writing! Join us in 2026”
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Writing, fast and slow
On Wednesdays since the beginning of January, I’ve been doing an exercise from a lovely little book, Creative Writing for Researchers. Taking five months to get through a 160-page book might seem extraordinarily slow. Some of the twenty-odd exercises took twenty minutes. Others took a lot longer. Sometimes I honed a haiku, other times IContinue reading “Writing, fast and slow”
Happy new year, happy new writing!
Happy new year and happy new writing! 2025 is full of opportunities to write together and I hope you can join me for as many as possible. We are returning to some of our favourite venues and trying a new format. Fifth birthday party: write up to teatime Ridge Writing Retreats turned five last autumnContinue reading “Happy new year, happy new writing!”
Write with us throughout 2024
How far in advance do you block out writing time? I’ve just got my own writing retreat dates sorted for the rest of the year. There might be more to come, but now we know that every couple of months, we have a couple of days to write together in person. Your fellow writers haveContinue reading “Write with us throughout 2024”
All I want for Christmas is time to write
The holidays are coming closer and so are deadlines, but if all you want for Christmas is writing time, we have new dates and a new venue for the new year. Looking forward to writing with you in 2024! Writing in a Winter Wonderland, Unity Tampere 8&9.2.2024 Unity is a brand-new venue for us, inContinue reading “All I want for Christmas is time to write”
Little and often
I’d love to have vast swathes of time to do nothing but write, but I haven’t got it. So little and often works for me. What about you? For three years now, pretty much every Wednesday, I’ve been writing with others on Zoom. We started in spring 2020 (no prizes for guessing why, but here’sContinue reading “Little and often”
Writing your article in 12 weeks
Well, I finished reading it in that time, but I didn’t finish working through it. Laura Belcher is brilliant – if you do most of what she says. Why most? Because I have one reservation. Not that her book Writing your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks isn’t hugely helpful. It is. Anyone who thinks it’sContinue reading “Writing your article in 12 weeks”
Where do you want to write next?
October is busy. If you do half term or have an autumn break, you are going to need it. Everybody you said you’d do something for wants it now. All the things you signed up for are suddenly happening. And those “by the end of the year” deadlines start looming on the horizon like littleContinue reading “Where do you want to write next?”
Spring into Writing 2022: join us on retreat!
The days are getting longer. The clocks will soon change. Our Wednesday writing group finds the sun rising earlier means we’re waking up earlier. Does that give us more time to write? Finally being back on campus or in the office has been brilliant for meeting in person again. But that means more time gettingContinue reading “Spring into Writing 2022: join us on retreat!”
Writing in a Winter Wonderland 2022
In January 2020, we wrote together in a winter wonderland and it was wonderful. At the Writers’ House in Jyväskylä, the snow started falling just as we finished writing. I knew we’d do it again soon… Two years on, we have come to value our time together in person even more. It is precious, whenContinue reading “Writing in a Winter Wonderland 2022”
Ridge Writing Retreats 