Place and space to write

I’m sitting on a late night train out of Bristol – my other-home since I moved to Bath from London in the economically adventurous summer of 2007.

The plan was to be here for just one year, then return. But both Bath and Bristol were too creatively welcoming for me to be able to resist.

Creativity demands headspace (in Norwegian, “krever” – akin to “craves”). Each of us has a different definition for crowded heads. Each knows where their true self can be heard.

When I moved to Bath, I felt deeply that the place mattered to the next stage in my life- and it birthed the beginning of my professional creative career.

A few weeks ago, holiday plans fell through and I was lucky enough to secure a place on a week’s writing retreat in Wales. You’ll have maybe spotted sound-posts and solo images on the blog, while I was here.

This was, without a doubt, a liminal moment for my current writing project. I was with two hosts and two other writers, and an outrageous amount of landscape. The support, acceptance, encouragement, listening and space I received was out of this world, and I will be forever grateful.

Where can you get this? Places are limited, because physics is physics but there’s another writing retreat here in October. Do check out Fern and Phil’s site properly, because they host a whole range of retreats and events, and you can even book in this peaceful haven for yourself, too.

As writers, professional or otherwise, you really know that place matters.

Your surroundings sing to your inner state.

Suffice to say, I cannot recommend a stay with such excellent and thoughtful hosts enough. I didn’t expect I’d be here, and now I can’t imagine a today where I wasn’t.

😉