I have just returned from an annual retreat with a small group of girlfriends – all strong Christians, all writers. We “pray, play and plot”. It’s an opportunity for all of us to “talk shop” without boring everyone else around us. Since we’re all writers, we like to talk about writing, the writing life, struggles of writing, what’s happening in publishing, technology (some like to have the latest gadgets) and writing, writing, writing. We sing. Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves. Someone will start and the rest join in and we sound so angelic. Well, not all of us. I croaked along. Others have good, but not fantastic voices. Thankfully, more than half of us are truly gifted and loud enough to drown out any pitiful warbling.
We are a motley crew of writers; contemporary, historical, suspense, thriller. We have one gal who is superwoman, writing, relocating a family, parenting, grand-parenting, caring...