the Write Retreat

If you are thinking of retreating it pays to get it right, WRITE?


There are times in our lives when, let’s face it, we need to take a step back. We need to take stock. We need to take time to breathe. Far too often our conscious mind says “Well yes, of course you want to do that but let me just say – NO! Not now, not in the next little while and just NO! You have so much to do – there are a hundred thousand things that are all clamouring for your attention when and if I give you a spare five minutes to even look at the possibility of dealing with them.”

Now that is when, and I mean right at that second you really do need to stop.

Serendipity led to meeting @Katherine Parris at a Writing Conference in August this year,
Katherine has a place in France, Brittany to be precise.
Not only does she have a place in France but she is opening her doors to writers and their families who perhaps feel the need to stop for a bit, take stock for a bit, but want to continue to have the opportunity to be writing at the same time – should they feel the urge.
Katherine is the proud owner of +‘The Write Retreat’ and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
On arrival we were struck by the total lack of noise. The air was easier to breathe and the pace was chaotically slow.
Walking into the Narnia cupboard would be similar I think – it is an assault on the senses to experience the total lack of forward motion that is France at its most laid back.
No sooner had we put the cases down than the wine began to flow and we were introduced to the family that would be ours for the duration of our stay, indeed we feel that we have become part of that growing family and are honoured to be so.
There is opportunity here. So much to see and do if you wish it, from the Menhirs to the Dolman, you are never more than two hours away from a coastline so there is ample to do for family who may not share your writing bug.
Perhaps it is your wish to make a full retreat and write that opus or Oscar winning screenplay? Then the annexe is the place for you. Flexible to the extent that it is up to you whether or not you interact with the family or live in splendid isolation, the choice is always yours.
The Write Retreat has to be experienced in all its wonder. The schoolhouse quietly situated on a main street, waiting expectantly for the arrival of the inspired and inspiring. The most amazingly eccentric but phenomenal restaurant bar that is Ghislane’s where in this the 21st Century you can have five courses and a litre bottle of good house wine for the princely sum of 13 Euros. The sleepy hamlet that is Kerivoa where the night sky is as blinged up as a hip hop DJ lottery winner with stars that shine and sparkle as Mozart and the Beatles would say, like diamonds in the sky only so much brighter and so much more beautiful.
Anyone who writes, has written, wants to write or is suffering from white page angst should go there.
The warmth of the welcome is out classed only by the feeling of belonging that occurs as if by magic. The rapport that springs from long acquaintance has been somehow concentrated and added to the air you breathe and the water you drink there.
Go to Kerivoa, get +the Write Retreat and breathe deeply. You will be inspired and recharged and you will return.