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ASSOCIATE MEMBER BLOG TAG: poets and writers

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:02PM
 
The ideal writers' retreat
Tags: writing retreats, Costa Rica, Docelunas, poets and writers, Amherst Writers method
 
If you had one week to write away from home, job, pets, etc., what would be your ideal surroundings? Would you choose to board a plane to a foreign country, or would a half-day car ride away be enough to jog your senses? Would you seek a retreat where you could immerse yourself in solitude, or one where workshops fill your notebook with new pages?

With these questions in mind, I set out six months ago across Costa Rica in search off the perfect spot to offer writers' retreats---and I found it. Docelunas is a 20-room, eco-friendly oasis at the foothills of the rainforest on the Pacific coast. I sought to fill a need that I'd heard expressed time and again from talented writers...
 
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