Ashland, Virginia
The Writer’s Cottage Guest Book
Dear Fellow Writer,
On my last day here, I decided to write a list of things I have learned, or relearned, this week:
l) That Phyllis wasn't going to say I hate your writing, you big fake. You're not a writer at all. That was good to get over with.
2) That if I just tried to be true, and LISTEN to what is inside of me, without worrying first how to say it, I was ok.
3) Better than ok, I got into the flow which was/is such a gift to me...
Blessings, flow, good karma to you here,
- K. O'Connor
This week was a fabulous, introspective, exhausting, exuberant, titillating, fun, sad, overwhelming, coffee-drinking trip - with lots of good food, good advice and good conversation. I wrap my arms around all of it and say "thank you."
- S. Najarian
To be a writer takes great sacrifice if one wants to do it well...One needs to be willing to give up other loves that take away from the writing. When I leave here today I say "yes! I am willing to make the sacrifice and see where it leads." Thanks and blessings to all who cross this threshold to share this energy.
- D. Boyle
There is no more perfect place to think, write and produce. You have created a masterpiece with this retreat. I wouldn't have had this kind of time, glorious seclusion, and masterful instruction were it not for you. I needed every stroke of your pen and each constructive word. (And thanks for hanging with me through the wierdo Gothic stuff I was working on.)
I hope to return in the future but until then I will continue to be inspired by the wonderful five days I spent in Ashland at the little red writer's cottage.
- M. Whitsun
This little red house has wrapped me in a warm hug. It feels good down to my toes to be here. My eyes and my soul have feasted on the colors, the play of light on a silver pitcher, luscious books, a nap in the sunshine on an ample couch and a corner where words finally arrived in my mind and fell out of my fingers. you have encouraged me and led me to a better way of "wiring it down." The time spent with you these five days has been the dessert of the spiritual meal I had here.
- J. Sackett |
