Make a Space: Writing on Retreat or at Home

By Allison K Williams

We all want more time to write. To explore on the page, to revise, to finish. Another writer tells me, “All I want to do is have other things go away so I can focus on my book, and day after day, something comes up.”

Things don’t go away. We have to go away from things.

Recently, I took a self-guided writing retreat, on board Cunard’s Queen Anne (privilege + travel agent brother + last-minute sale of unsold rooms + flyer miles). I picked an itinerary of cold, gr...