Did you know that many cruise ships have libraries? 📖 Just perfect for a writer ✏️ looking for seclusion. Could you write here? #SeaScribes #WritingRetreat #LibraryLust #TravelWriter #OfficeWithAView #AmWriting #WaveWriters
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the English poet and painter, owned a beloved wombat for a short time. Rossetti even brought him to the table to listen to poetry readings by friends. 📚 #WaveWriters #FunFacts #AuthorLife #WritersPets #WombatWisdom #LiteraryZoo #DeskDragon
If you're keeping track, today is 30 DAYS until the Texas Wave Writers Retreat!
No reason to run down the pier yelling, just join us now!
Details at wavewriters.com
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When preparing to write, prepare yourself first: get your tea, coffee, or water ready, hit the bathroom, clear your desk / clear your mind, take a moment to think about what you want to write. #WaveWriters #WriteTheWave #AuthorMindset #WritingCommunity #WriterFocus #AmWriting #DeepWork #WritingTips
If you're keeping track, today is 2 months until the Texas Wave Writers Retreat!
Don't worry, there's still time for you to get on board! Writers. Editors. Sea. Sun. and You!
Details at wavewriters.com
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If you're keeping track, today is 3 months until the Texas Wave Writers Retreat!
Book your spot now. Don't let your characters have all the adventures.
Details at wavewriters.com
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Searching for ideas, or drowning in ideas? It always seems to be one or the other. Which one are you?
#wavewriters #IdeasLikeSantasList #DreamerofDreams #writerlife
Dylan Thomas knew the value of peace and writing. At his Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, Thomas used a small garden shed overlooking the estuary as his private retreat.
Come sit with us by the water and grow your own story.
#wavewriters #DylanThomas #writingretreats #amwriting #storyflowers
If you're keeping track, today is only 4 months until the Texas Wave Writers Retreat!
Book your spot, and start counting the days with us! Focused Writing. Professional editors. Inspiration.
Details at wavewriters.com #DontWaveGoodbye #Wavewriters #writersretreat #countdown #writerlife
Are they already sitting under a stack of inspiring blank notebooks? 📓 More clever pens and pencils than they could shake a crayon at? ✏️ Consider something bigger and better. A Writers Retreat Cruise. 🛳️ (And yes, you could come along and enjoy the cruise 😉) Details at wavewriters.com
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Which type of writer are you? Drowning in ideas or afloat in a sea of emptiness?
#wavewriters #writerlife #IdeasLikeSantasList #NextNovelNaughtyOrNice #amwriting
A cruise ship takes on board around 2,000 lbs of turkey for Thanksgiving. That's a TON of TURKEY, literally! How much turkey are YOU planning to "take on board" this Thanksgiving?
Happy Thanksgiving, writers!
#Thanksgiving #wavewriters #aTONofTURKEY #subplotsaregravy #writingretreat
TX Wave Writers Retreat is April 13 - 18, 2026.
There's still time to write from a new point of view. wavewriters.com
#wavewriters #writerslife #retreatatsea #boatloadofcharacters #texaswriters
If you're keeping track, today is 7 months until the Texas Wave Writers Retreat!
Book your spot while the water is warm.
Details at wavewriters.com
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We’re more active on Instagram and Facebook—follow us there for the latest updates. Or check out our 'home port' at wavewriters.com for the latest information. #wavewriters #writingretreats #calmwaters
Color-coded editing guidelines chart Purple - Plot Blue - Character Orange - Worldbuilding Green - Theme Yellow - Pacing Magenta - Dialogue / Voice Aqua - Line Edits
This editing system was guided by what colors were in the pack of gel pens that I bought!
What system do you use for your color edits? Do your manuscripts bleed in rainbow, or do you leave them dripping blood red?
#amediting #writerlife #wavewriters #editingtricks #bleedrainbow
Every summer, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) retreated to an octagonal writing shed he had built. He described it to friends: “It is octagonal … perched in complete isolation … leagues of valley … retreating ranges of distant blue hills. A cozy nest."
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EDITOR ANNOUNCEMENT
It is our honor to present our first Official Wave Editor, Kelly Lynn Colby of Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing! *jazz hands and muppet theatrics* Welcome aboard, Kelly. As our writers manifest, more editors will be activated.
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If you're keeping track, today is 8 months until the Texas Wave Writers Retreat! Book your spot before we run out of waves!
Details at wavewriters.com
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Where do you get your story ideas?
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
—John Steinbeck
#FloatYourIdeas #WaveWriters #WritersRetreat #Writerlife #amwriting
Writers' Retreat at Sea ~ April 13-18, 2026
Galveston, TX > Costa Maya, MX > Cozumel, MX
As low as $908 for room, all meals, and no cleaning!
www.wavewriters.com for details.
#wavewriters #nocleaning #CookingUpCharacters #writersretreats
If you're counting down to departure day, TODAY is 9 MONTHS until the TX Wave Writers Retreat on Mariner of the Seas! ⚓ 🛳️ 🎉
#wavewriters #amwriting #writersretreat #booksky #writersky #cantwait
Word Count Tracking and Analysis
How many words per minute do you write? How many hours does it take for you to write a chapter? If you haven't tried not only tracking your word count ( #goals), but analyzing it, you might discover some interesting things about your process by trying.
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Only a couple more days to get the best possible deal on our Texas-based Writers' Retreat next April!
Details at www.wavewriters.com Lock in your price with a small booking deposit.
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There’s an Early Registration Special available for the Wave Writers Retreat! Act before July 4th to snag it. #writingretreats #amwriting #wavewriters #IfEveryWaveWereAWord
Look at the beautiful ship we'll be on for our writers' retreat: Mariner of the Seas! Fine dining and hot tubs as always, but also an arcade, escape room, surf simulator, and so much more! Explore the ship at www.royalcaribbean.com/cruise-ships...
#writersky #writersretreats #WaveWriters #SeaSure
If you're counting down, today marks 10 MONTHS!
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How about a writers retreat? Write more pages, meet new friends, make inspiring memories.
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When the going gets tough, where do you go?
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Consider going with us, to a Caribbean writing retreat!
I can't wait for next April! I'm going on the first annual Wave Writers retreat!
Anyone want to join me?
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