Writing Retreat Blog
12 Writing Prompts for the Holidays!
Scheduled holidays provide us with a rare opportunity for extended periods of uninterrupted writing time. With this in mind, here are 12 prompts you could use to inspire 12 days of writing over the winter holiday. But first, a spoiler alert! If you take creative writing classes with us at the Centauri Arts Academy, you will be receiving your own, gift-wrapped writing prompts similar to the ones below, so we'd advise you not to read [...]
Our Costa Rica Writing Retreat 2018!
Our third annual writing retreat to Costa Rica finished this week, and what a fabulous adventure it was. Here’s a list of our most memorable experiences: The Group! A wonderful collection of people from across North America. We had seasoned writers, and participants writing creatively for the first time. Poets, playwrights, short story writers, novelists, memoir writers and people trying various forms. Some of us had attended retreats before, while others had barely travelled. Our [...]
Five Qualities of a Great Writing Retreat!
The benefits of a writing retreat go far beyond the solitude to write, and likely those benefits will stay with you for years to come. So what exactly should you be saying at the end of a week on retreat? I am a writer! You may love to write – or want to write – but chances are, you spend most of your life being other things – a mother, a teacher, a grandparent, an [...]
