The thing about being a writer is you go nowhere and speak to no one that it isn't all potential story fodder. Which is a good thing! Even if it does mean scribbling notes on cocktail napkins and writing in the margins of books you didn't write and asking nosy questions of people who just met...
Part of why it's so necessary to travel -- at least get out of the house! -- for a writer is that you need something to write about that doesn't strictly come out of your own brain. You need to interact with the world (and not the online world where you don't have to look into people's eyes or imagine their reactions).
Part of being a good writer is being a good observer.
But anyway, I plan to do a lot of reading and walking and spending time with the SO where I actually concentrate on what he's saying and not just absently agree because most of my brain is still grappling with the imaginary conversations of characters.
I plan to drink and eat and get a massage. I plan to watch sunrises and sunsets and breathe deep lungful's of ocean air.
So that's me for the next nine -- NINE -- days.
What about you? When was the last time you had a real vacation? What did you do? Who did you do it with?
I am looking forward to one next month. Enjoy your vacation.
ReplyDeleteYou've worked hard and it's well deserved. I'm glad you're building time into your schedule for yourself, and for SO. Have the best time!
ReplyDeleteYou go, you! Hope you and the SO have a fabulous time!
ReplyDeleteHope you both have a lovely time! I hope your reading is more for fun and less work than I gathered from your Goodreads post. When I go on holiday I read and read in a lovely place. And then listen to an audiobook when the sun's too bright for reading.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your vacation with the SO! Rest, laugh, eat and drink well...just have a fabulous time away from it all! Yay!
ReplyDeleteI wish you and the SO a gorgeous time with wonderful weather, very tasty food and exactly the amount of work, that you are content, but have enough time to enjoy Catalina.
ReplyDeleteHave a great time! I'm on vacation right now on Bonaire with my SO. Tomorrow my best friend arrives and we get to show her the most beautiful spots on the island and she will make me look at familiar things with new eyes :)
ReplyDeleteMy last vacation was a destination Thanksgiving at the Grand Canyon with my parents, kids, and brother's family. I hope you are having a marvelous time!
ReplyDeleteHave a great time! I will be heading out in mid-April, maybe to Rome, maybe just to the couch in the living room.
ReplyDeleteThe SO and I, joined by my two grown kids, now 22 and 19, travel twice a year, usually to the Caribbean, but sometimes further abroad, and I insist on taking at least one trip a year with just the SO, even if it's a short one. This past November I joined the SO in San Diego -- she was there for a work conference --and we went wine tasting up the coast at "urban wineries" and we also went to the beach, nice and secluded because it was cold and windy.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a great and relaxing vacation!
Have a great time!I'll go on vacation in May for my Honeymoon ^_^
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