August 3, 2008: Vacation recovery
For some reason, I'm having a hard time getting back online writing-wise after the recent vacation to New England. Readercon was great and inspiring, the Lizzie Borden house was fascinating, the visits to Hawthorne's grave and Thoreau's house were invigorating.
Yet now that I'm back, I'm not getting back into the writing like I should. I'm more tired these last ten days than I've been in a long time, and certainly more addled and disorganized, too.
It might have something to do with the stage I'm at with the novel: rewriting the thing. I thought I'd lost my critical faculty when I first read the beginning chapters because they didn't look bad, but the first chapter needs a lot more work.
It's funny how I tend to spend more time recovering from a vacation than enjoying one.
Maybe that's because I try very hard to live my whole life like most people want to on vacation: relatively free, introspective, perceptive, and involved. Indeed, a vacation tends to be the reverse of those things for me because of the crowds and inconveniences.
No more "vacations."
