Working Vacation Turned Writing Retreat Endorsement

  Sometimes all you need is to get away from the daily grind. Sometimes all you need is a wide open schedule to get all the writing done.Sometimes you’ll get lucky and your husband will have an out-of-town job that you can join him on to get both the things you need. We recently moved so I took off a week of my scoping work (my main gig) in order to get the house settled (it’s a work in progress 🥴 ). Immediately following that, my husband had scheduled an out-of-town job in the NC mountains and asked me to come.  If you subscribe to my newsletter, you’ll remember that I decided to use that time to plan my own private writing retreat of sorts. If you’re not a Remy’s Beauty yet, subscribe here .And boy, oh boy, did that idea ever turn out phenomenally! I have been slacking on my writing. Not proud of it; just stating a fact. And I’ve been missing my scheduled writing time. And with anything, it’s hard to get back into something once you’ve let it slip. So when this opportunity came up, I grabbed onto it with both hands.I laid out a tentative daily schedule and decided to get as much of my current WIP (That Night We Met) written as possible. Before this, I’d written only one chapter 😱 and I knew if I didn’t do something soon, I wouldn't make my fall publishing goal. It was a beautiful place. We rented a duplex with an amazing view. The neighborhood was set on some twisty-turny roads with serious up and down elevation – it’s the mountains, after all – and it was lovely. I wrote, I took walks in the neighborhood, I wrote more, I meal prepped for the week, I wrote some more, I hiked, and I finished the week off brilliantly. It was incredibly relaxing and incredibly productive.                     This trip was the writing gods giving me a handout. So I accepted it happily, and I wrote my sexy writing little ass off! Yeah, I said it.In the four days we were there, I wrote more than 16,000 words for That Night We Met (!!!) and another 3,000 for other writing projects. So in four days, I wrote over 19,000 words!!Not only did I write all those words, but I finished That Night We Met.Let me repeat that for those in the back…I FINISHED MY WIP!!!This is like a revolutionary action, let me tell you. I thought at best, I’d get maybe half of the book written, and figured what that week would do is get me itching to make writing more of a priority again when I got home. But no .… I FINISHED MY STORY! If you remember, this is a story that I’ve had in my head for almost two years, but my timeline of other stories I wanted/needed to write didn't allow for it just yet. But it’s finally time, baby! You’re going to get a heart-wrenching, love-inducing story of two people deep in the years of marriage who are just trying to make it work but can’t find common ground anymore. You’ll cry and you’ll laugh and hopefully by the end, you’ll have more of an appreciation for love itself, if not for your own partner. Relationships are not simple, they’re not a one-way road. They twist and turn and circle back and throw roadblocks up, testing you all the time. You must work at them every day of your entire coupled-up life if you want to be with the person you’re with for all time. Not all relationships work. That’s truth. But if it’s the right relationship, if it’s a relationship that’s worth fighting for …. then fight for it, dammit! Don’t blame. Don’t assume. Don’t sit in silence when a simple word could make things better. Be there for your partner, be there for yourself. Be the kind of partner you would want. And maybe .… just maybe you’ll get a lifelong partner who will always be there for you as well. One who knows you better than anyone else on earth. One who is truly your other half.Meet Reed and Nathan Barlowe. A later-in-life couple who against all odds met and fell in love with their complete opposite, one spontaneous and one a little too serious. A couple who became best friends, soulmates, despite their differences. A couple who are given a second chance at love when the crossroads they come to make them realize exactly what they have in front of them.  Reed and Nate will make you see more inside yourself than you’ve ever wanted to before. A couple whose love will shine through the layers of silence, will make you growl with frustration, or nod with understanding, at the oh-so-common occurrences inside a marriage, but who will in the end show up for each other the way we all should for our partners.That Night We Met, coming fall of 2024. 💛Until next time, Keep reading, Beauties.Xoxo