Save Oct. 13-15 for a
creative explosion!
Mark your calendars for October
13-15, the dates of this year’s fall retreat. We’re mixing it up with a whole new approach
(including a sweet new location!) We’re calling it “Inspiration and Motivation for Creatives Retreat: Weekend on the Water,”
and it’ll also be full of connections — between your work and your life, and
among you and your tribe. It’ll including programming for creatives of all stripes — illustrators as well as writers, from seasoned pros to beginners — and it'll launch you high into NaNoWriMo or the 2018 of
your creative dreams.
One example of this year’s potent opportunities: Every
attendee can create their own Insight Book in a session led by local artist and
author Wendy Wahman.
What’s an Insight
Book?
It’s art and writing, collage and doodling, improvisation
with yourself. Anyone can make one — you need not be an artist. You start with
nothing in mind, then a line or a color triggers an aha! One line, written or drawn, leads to another.
Non-artists surprise themselves by making art. When you’re
done, you a hold a book in your hands. Your book. Your insights. A new door to
your creative heart.
What’s it look like?
What people who’ve
done it have said:
“This was a great exercise for Residency – getting out of my
head and putting my hands to work, working with the random arrangement of
lines, listening to the shapes, finding the colors of the text. I took the text
I'd written in my book from our workshop and put it into lines and verse for a
poetry class a few days later, and it is a wonderful start to a piece called
Forest for the Trees. It is always exciting to me when work can cross genres,
and when a bigger piece is born from a seemingly small prompt. And, I hope this
becomes a habit.” – Samantha Claire Updegrave, Whidbey Writer’s
MFA Residency
“I was lucky enough to take part in Wendy Wahman’s workshop
on Insight Books last month. Not only is she a talented author/illustrator and
a great presenter, but she did something that, in the middle of an intensive
writing residency, was pivotal. She encouraged us to play. The result was a
beautiful book and a wonderful sense of inner peace.” –
Mureall Hebert, Whidbey Writer’s MFA Residency
Want to learn more?
See more examples and praise on Wendy’s website.
Watch this space for more details about retreat
opportunities. Registration will open in mid-August. In the meantime, plan to
attend and get psyched for a weekend like none you’ve ever enjoyed!
