Inklings and Incidentals »

Joy - Wants to remind writers attending her sessions that they will be part lecture and part interactive. You are coming to write?
Fiction vs. Nonfiction Track?

I’ve asked that y’all reply to me about which track you are planning to attend.
This was only to gauge approximate [...]

Inklings and Impartations »

This week on Nan’s blog . . . for “Retreaters” & Writers:
Areas of interest: The Important “Ps”
PRONOUNCEMENT - What to read before you come.
PREPARATION - What do you need to do to prepare?
PURPOSE - Why you’re attending.
PLAN - What you hope to accomplish.
PRESENTATION - Making a good impression.
PREPARING & PRACTICING your PITCH - To our [...]

Inklings & Innocence »

This is the first of my reviews of the Southwest Regional Retreat and Writers Workshop speakers’ books. I hope they motivate you to run out and get them (through this website’s bookstore, of course) and read them.
Nan Rinella

Book Review:
Blue Hole Back Home
By Joy Jordan-Lake
BLUE HOLE BACK HOME tugs at the heart like [...]

Inklings & Inspiration »

Please excuse the pause in this blog. I’ve been on holiday, and, of all places, to The Kilns. Yes, C.S. Lewis’s home just outside Oxbridge, England. What a thrill and what a blessing the visit was.
I went as a participant of the Summer Seminars-in-Residence for the August 1-7 session. The Kilns was bought and restored [...]