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Published on 01-11-2010 11:00 AM
This week's topic comes through a rather circuitous route, so bear with me...
It starts a month ago, when I spent the first two weeks of December on a writing retreat. The idea was simple. Seclude myself away in an area I find environmentally stimulating (for me, this is means winter storms, grey skies, trees and water, so the North Oregon coast was perfect) for an extended period (long enough for the "just here for a weekend" need to sleep/enjoy the area/get over jet lag to go away) with a specific purpose (revising my novel per some professional advice I'd received on it.)
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