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This artfully designed kit offers twenty retreats for writers and artists, each with a theme and suggested activities aimed at maximizing creativity. The guidebook covers a vast array of accessible and applicable information, including the practices of a writing retreat, setting your intention, creating a safe and nurturing place, and even ways to reenter your day job with a chapter called “After the Retreat.” And since writing isn’t the only activity that occurs during a retreat, each theme also includes “Provisions, Practices, and Creative Nourishment” ideas to aid the writing process. These include books that echo the theme, art projects to fulfill other creative urges, music suggestions, even delicious recipes, like the scrumptious Chocolate Truffle Charm Cake, for fueling an all-night writing binge. The deck consists of five reference cards and twenty interactive cards that provide prompts for each thematic retreat outlined in the book. It is a must-have tool and a dynamic muse for creative types who yearn to get away from it all and devote attention to their craft. “No one beams more light into the murky corners of the writing process than Judy Reeves.” — Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander