Issue 30: I went on my very first Writing Retreat

And some practical tips if you choose to plan your own

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The hardest thing about writing a book is believing that you are capable of writing it. It’s such an odd experience. I am sitting pen in hand, notebook on my knees… LITERALLY writing … and I still hear the voice in my head - what are you doing?! who do you think you are?! what makes you believe this will be any good?!… But I have been writing my Morning Pages, doing my walks and generally talking myself through it all. Until I got to a point where I had some decisions to make - plot related things that were making me feel stuck…