Just putting the final touches on the packing. Most important stuff is copying the latest files to my memory stick so that I have the correct version of things. Mind you I am starting a new file and a new project. But I have some short fiction to tweak and I need to bring that with me.
The thing that has been forgotten on two retreats (not by me) is the laptop power cords. It’s happened twice so far on two different retreats. Last year I brought the wrong version of the manuscript but luckily my daughter could find the correct one and email it. So drama over.
We were meant to leave at 11.00am but we have late arrivals. Haha. But as we can’t check in till this afternoon and as it is only 2.5 hours away it is no great drama. We don’t normally get serious work done on the first day, with settling in etc.
I always pack way too many books to read on retreat. Usually I write too much to mentally engage with fiction and we socialise too much to find the time. It’s just fall into bed and roll out the next morning to write.
I love writers retreats with these great friends of mine. It’s cool they like the same thing. Writing. And I guess it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea either, holidaying and writing etc.
Cheers for now.
Donna Maree Hanson, Author, Phd in Creative Writing 
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