Residency

This week gave me time, space, silence, beauty – all of which helped me piece back together the things I’d feared I lost. This time was invaluable to me, and the space feels magical.

I feel incredibly fortunate to be one of the writers in residence. This is my second time here and I am so inspired by the good changes happening here. The new writer’s facility is amazing! I feel only good energy.

Thank you WODC for being the space between word and page, between the best of writing intention and the best of writing action. I got so much done! After a year of writing drought with a few brief rains that barely wet the dirt. I can move my project from written to revision. Rough draft to first draft.

Sometimes a space, a place brings about things not completely expected. I expected to be awed by the landscape, the grounds, the lake, and the experience here at Write On, Door County. What I hadn’t expected was the strange sense of calm healing I experienced here. For what felt like the first time in a long time, I felt a sense of peace and marvel that seemed lost in the last year. Writing and reading filled me with a childlike wonder. Things felt possible in a way they didn’t before, and they still do as I write this. Thank you to Jerod and everyone else at WODC for providing and maintaining this space and place of opportunity despite the chaotic last year. The work and progress I was able to make on my manuscript would not have been made without this opportunity. I will forever treasure my time here.

Being here brings me back into contact with the writer and artist I know myself to be -- the one that the “real world” pushes down. Thank you for this place that reminds me who I am, connects me with what I need to do, and helps me get motivated to keep going.