Screenwriting : One Month by Angela Cristantello

Kauai or Lanai.

In Korea or China. I fell in love with Chinese and Korean movies as a child.

Rome, near the Pantheon. In fact, at the hotel behind it.

this is a great question! Hmm, I'd have to say Rome as well. Somewhere with ancient history since that always inspires a lot of story for me

Hmmm. Good question Angela. I say it depends on where you are in your process. If you are developing a first draft, go to the real world setting (where possible), or a place that suggests the characters and ambience of your setting.

If you are doing a rewrite, and need to work uninterrupted, go to a remote Air B and B alone, and write until you are done. The location is not as important as the solitude and inner peace.

If you are working on a finished script, go to a production center (read as big city) where you can network actors and crew members for a reading and workshop. For a short while, this will bring your work to life, and will enable you to feel, hear, and record the workshop for potential financiers.

Good Luck!

A cabin in the woods overlooking a lake, and close to hiking trails. Need a grill, and a rowboat to help decompress.

I would go to the location in which my story takes place.

Either some little villa in Italy that has the Alps in view, a secluded forest where i can wander thru it at will. Perhaps a pristine, crystal clear blue lake and some ancient roman ruins nearby Or a bed and breakfast somewhere in England where there is lots of history and historic ruins to visit.. Castles nearby, perhaps an abbey or two, again some woods, a lake, and a little village as well.

Then every morning, myself and the other residents who also happen to be creative types can sit, eat and discuss with each other our individual projects. offer advice to each other, helpful tips and what have you. While we indulge ourselves with tea, scones, hot buttered croissants and jam. Then afterwards enjoy a nice smoke outside with a pipe and some cherry flavored tobacco.

To my writing desk in the comfy little corner of my studio. I can glance out my window at the snow covered Cascade mountains, listen to whatever music I want, write in my 'sweats' and let my imagination carry me to where ever I feel like going.

I'd do a small villa in the south of France or a cabin that sits on a lake in the midwest near a small town. Somewhere that feels a quiet but isn't completely isolated.

Bali

A cabin in the woods with nobody else and nothing to do for miles.

But if you are a writer, you can write anywhere. The late Harlan Ellison wrote in a bookstore display window as a gag.

Thinking "If I only had X I could write" is a mistake. If you want to write, you will write. If you don't really want to write, you will come up with something like whatever X is as an excuse.

Kings Beach in Lake Tahoe, CA. Need an idea? Go for a run on the epic trails right outside my door.

Galápagos Islands! I visited there for five weeks and painted a dozen seascapes, had adventures, caught the volcanic melodrama energy, great surfing beach at Tortuga Bay is pretty remote, welcoming faraway culture and astonishing experience.

On top of an epic well known mountain range EG Himalayas, Andes in a yurt with all mod cons and a daily supermarket delivery by private jet. But probably equally happy to find writing euphoria inside my own head without moving my ass off couch.

A sound proof room.

I once stumbled across one of Agatha Christie's bolt holes, a hotel in the Julian Alps on Lake Bohinj in Slovenia. Incredibly beautiful and peaceful setting. I wouldn't mind writing there.

Monaco

North Iceland in the summer.

I'd never leave my house. I'd pay someone to get my mail and groceries and write, write, write.

LOVE these ideas, Y'all! Slightly problematic because I'm two steps away from going down a steeeeeep Airbnb rabbit hole (thanks so much) but I love the sound of all of these dreamy retreats!

Somewhere to the South where there's lots of sun. Energy around and in me would spur me on. Or, maybe, I'm just done with European winter.

Angela, I'd stay right here in this apartment of mine...and have a BALL writing, writing, and writing!

My muse is at home

I would visit my friends' house and community in their eco-village located on the most beautiful part of Japan: Lake Biwa in the Shiga prefecture. Completely off grid, the houses are beautiful! And the surrounding nature is breath-taking! <3 Ahhh I can still smell the air......

Oh and I saw somewhere that sometimes people go to old castles turned writing retreats! That sound like fun, staying in a castle :)

Bianca, that is ABsolutely a real thing! There's also legit Airbnb-like sites where you can go and just, you know. Rent out a castle for the week, just because.

Either Savannah, Georgia or one of the remote British isles.