The Ink Shot archive
From 7 May 2012 until 7 December 2021 The Ink Shot was the blog of Marcus Baumgart, an itinerant café writer, designer of buildings, animal-lover and day-by-day battling creative. This blog celebrates the practice of writing in cafés, writing fiction and non-fiction and being creative in general.
Marcus struggles to motivate without the happy white noise of lively conversation and hissing espresso machines.
Writing in far-off places continues...
I just finished an 11 day writing retreat (self-imposed and self-directed) in Ubud, in Bali. 7000 words of the novel down in that time, bringing me to a current total of 22,074 words (not that I'm counting!) I stayed at Temuku Villas Ubud, which I can recommend for a quiet place to write. Ubud is lovely, and the resort was nestled in amongst the rice paddies, such as shown above. It is my first writing-focused trip ever, and I will do it again, although in future I will do a larger number of day trips and excursions to break up the writing a little more.
This trip means that I have now spent time writing in Indonesia, Italy, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and of course, at home in Melbourne.