Donna Maree Hanson, Author and PhD Candidate

Well, we’ve eaten a mountain of chips and dip, chocolate and shortbread. We’ve consumed copious amounts of wine, gin and cider. (I lost count after the first night). We’ve worked hard and we’ve laid around and vegged. We’ve hung out and chatted and had billiard wars. But now, the time has come when we are done.

It’s just past five, and Matthew’s been vacuuming and Russell has been sweeping. Food is being organised and rubbish taken out. We are leaving early tomorrow.

All up the retreatees wrote just over 200,000 words in two weeks.

For myself, I’m a little short of target word wise, but I’ve accomplished more than I expected. Into the Dark Glass is at 79,000 words. I’m revising now and rethinking. I need to take time over this MS, but I have finished the story arc, which is what I wanted. I’m not sure it will be…