I watched the movie Tamara Drewe last night, a so-so update of Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. But it gave me an idea. What this website needs is a writers' retreat. A bucolic setting in the English countryside where, during the day, we'd sit on a sunny patio and write spanking stories. Our hosts, Februs and Flopsy perhaps, would serve their home-made cakes and tea. Then, in the evening, we'd read and critique each other's stories, weeding out mixed metaphors and the like. After a restful sleep, we'd arise for an old fashioned English breakfast. Following a brisk walk down a shady lane, it would be back to the laptop for another day of writing about upturned bottoms, canes, saucy wives and naughty schoolgirls.
It was just a thought. |