by Clare Flynn | Jun 1, 2024
Indulging My Love of Stained Glass – at Chartres Cathedral Last month I spent a wonderful week in the Loire Valley on a writing retreat with six of my writer friends. We rented a huge gite – complete with two swimming pools! In the midst of vineyards. As well as lots...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 27, 2024
A False Start When I was in Sri Lanka recently, I started writing what would have been my seventeenth novel. At that stage, I hadn’t even had my structural edits back on number sixteen, which I’d only submitted to my publisher the day before I left. (Happily, my...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 25, 2024
A Change is as Good as a Rest – Writing and Research Trip to Sri Lanka People sometimes ask me why I love writing retreats. Surely you can write just as easily in your own home, or in a library or coffee shop? Isn’t it an unnecessary indulgence to travel somewhere...
by Clare Flynn | Nov 27, 2023
Penang – How a Location Spoke to me I’d had a writing drought for three months. Not what I’d expected when I set off to sail around the world in one hundred and thirty days. With all that time and having finished my previous book I was certain I would have the...
by Clare Flynn | Sep 11, 2023
“My” Chateau in France | France My Significant Items Travel Next March I will be heading to France to the Loire Valley with several of my writing friends for a week-long writers’ retreat. We’re looking forward to many writerly chats, boosting our word...
