They are usually so low-key and relaxing - no agendas or schedules to adhere to - so I can just read, write, and relax to my heart's content.
Of course, I'll be reading as well. I always feel like vacation time is catching up on my reading time and I love going to the bookstore that first day and browsing the shelves for the perfect beach reads.
I may have been a bit ambitious with my stack of books this year, but I know I'll get to them eventually.I'm starting with Shadow of Night and Life After Life.
Do you write more or less when you are on vacation?
I don't go on too many vacations. And I don't have a laptop, so whenever I do write on the go it's with paper and pen. So I'd have to say I write more when I'm not on vacation.
ReplyDeleteAnd a major character overhaul? That sounds stressful. Hopefully you were able to get a lot of writing time in though.
My family goes to the beach every year. It's just a full week of sitting out on the beach all day, under an umbrella, reading books for me. For the past several years I've tried to get some good writing time in as well, but now that I have little nieces to play with, there isn't a lot of quiet time that's good for writing. Not that I mind too much though. I love spending time with them.
ReplyDeleteI love writing with pen and paper. Sometimes when I'm stuck or in a creative rut, I'll start writing by hand again. It seems to unlock a part of my imagination that typing on a computer doesn't. Of course, then I have to transfer everything to my laptop so I mostly stick to writing on my computer. I always carry around a notebook in my purse though for whenever inspiration strikes!
The character overhaul was stressful, but completely necessary. And he's a main character so it's been difficult. I'm still working on it! But he's getting more fleshed out by the day so I'm happy I did it.
that totally reminds me of a main character I need to overhaul. Another story I had been working on had this really sweet and misunderstood guy in it. I had hand written like 80 pages before I realized he wasn't pertinent to the story, and was a distraction from what I had originally wanted to tell...I have to get rid of him (sort of haven't picked that one up in a while).
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