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title: Author Crystal King's Blog - Tasting Life Twice | Kennebunkport Maine
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# Tasting Life Twice

Author Crystal King muses on life, history, writing and food.

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## Posts about Kennebunkport Maine:

![A Writers' Retreat](https://blog.crystalking.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/IMG_0169.jpg)

[Writing](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/writing) [Anita Shreve](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/anita-shreve) [Kennebunkport Maine](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/kennebunkport-maine) [retreat](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/retreat) [Thesaurus](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/thesaurus) [Blog](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/blog) [Boodles](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/boodles) [Maine](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/maine) [novels](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/novels) [revision](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/revision) [Roget's Thesaurus](https://blog.crystalking.com/tag/rogets-thesaurus)

There is a formula for a perfect writer's retreat: a [Maine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine) beach house + two 1/2 days + a schedule + amazing [writing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing) partners = success. Actually, success = three chapters + a more fully fleshed out timeline + incredible momentum to keep going.  
 What it didn't yield for me and my three writing partners was a name. We've been meeting bi-weekly for five years and for those five years my husband says to me every other week, "are you meeting up with the Women?"  Which is a fairly terrible name, [like a bad film remake](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430770/) or something. We tried. We consulted a worn 1884 copy of Clubs and Club Life of London ([this is 1908 version](http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5dFAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=london+clubs+taverns&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zN7IUdDcKOLD4AO36oDABA&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg) if you are curious) which we found in a bookshelf full of ancient books and photo albums. We learned about the Beef-Steak Society, the Blue Stocking Club and the Boodles, but alas, it didn't give us ideas. We dug through [Roget's 1911 Thesaurus](http://machaut.uchicago.edu/rogets), which we all agreed is a writer's best friend (we also shared fond stories of our own dog-eared copies we used as kids before traditional thesaurus' really became popular). Nada. We are still Nameless.

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