Asheville Cabin Rentals Are Havens for Writers and Readers
29 July 2010For anyone who is seeking to get away from it call to do some writing or to catch up on some good reading, Asheville cabin rentals are ideal destinations.
For writers, many Asheville cabin rentals come with modern amenities such as high-speed wireless Internet. If your writing tasks involve meeting deadlines, you’ll be able to find a place where you can stay connected and email your assignment in to your client or editor. Or, if you’re looking for a place where you can turn off your cell phone and take a break from contact with the modern world to allow your creative juices to flow, you’re sure to find the perfect place for that, too. Perhaps searching Asheville cabin rentals will lead you to the ideal hideaway where you can finish that novel, write uninterrupted in your journal, or find inspiration to pen some poetry.
You won’t be the first writer to find the Asheville area to be conducive to writing or at least inspiring to them while writing in other places. Many famous authors have called the mountains home at least part-time including Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, Carl Sandburg, Gail Godwin, Wilma Dykeman, and John Ehle. Many lesser-known but highly acclaimed local contemporary authors call Western North Carolina home as well.
It could be that some Asheville cabin rentals are already taken by writers enrolled at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa for its creative writing graduate programone of only two programs of its kind in the United States.
If your involvement in the literary world is as a consumer, you’ll find Asheville cabin rentals wonderful places to read even if you forgot to pack your reading material. Downtown Asheville has two of the region’s best independent booksellers: Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café at 55 Haywood Street for new books and Downtown Books and News at 67 North Lexington Avenue for used books as well as the latest magazines and newspapers.
If used books are your thing, The Captain’s Bookshelf at 31 Page Avenue downtown and Montford Books & More at 31 Montford Avenue at the edge of the historic Montford district will provide much browsing pleasure.
Of course, Asheville cabin rentals are also convenient to major booksellers you know including Barnes & Noble at the Asheville Mall and Books-A-Million right across the street at 136 South Tunnel Road.
Lastly, while you’re looking for Asheville cabin rentals, you may want to ask the owners if their properties have their own stocked bookshelves.
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