An eight-hour writing vacation AKA The 2011 Broadmoor write-out

As a writer, it's important to spend time with other writers. Their support and camaraderie are keep you on that sometimes-difficult path. It's also helpful to go to beautiful places and soak in the atmosphere. Being amid beauty unleashes creativity and fires the imagination.

Every year my local writers' group spends the day at the beautiful Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. They are very gracious and allow us to take up space on their

patio by the lake, the mezzanine, and the upper lobby.

This year about 25 writers met to spend time together. We wrote, brainstormed, encouraged, plotted, and enjoyed the company of creatives.

It was heaven, writers, writers, everywhere . . .