the business of living
I've been in hiding lately. Not like hunched down behind the couch, quivering in fear, but like actually resting some. It is amazing how much better I feel today. R&R is very important for a writer. We don't -- well I don't -- take advantage of it enough. Sooo... What have I been doing?
Um...a rewrite. Which is actually fun this time! The rewrite letter (5 pages single spaced,) urk, looked horrible, but hasn't been. I am doing the hard copy portion streched out on the couch. Resting...
I also spent four hours yesterday making jewelry. Understand, that making jewelry is a way for my soul to relax. It uses totaly different parts of my brain from writing. I love it. And because of deadlines, I have not touched it for over eight months. Eight...months.... So I had all this stone-creative-energy damed up in me and it just poured out. I made two necklaces for Kim Harrison to look at and approve (note to self, email her about them,) and four necklaces for me! LOVE two of them!
On a less sitting-on-butt note, I also have been running a few rivers. Hubby and I took the Lower Green River in North Carolina in our hard boats. Hair-heads (hard-core, whitewater paddlers) will scoff at the Lower Green, but hubby and I are newbies and the Class IIs were about right for us. Maybe we'll run it again when it rains and the water level is higher. That will change the nature of the rapids and add a lot of spice to the run. We saw some amazing birds! Two males of different species who took the river part way with us. Got to ask David B. Coe about them.
Tomorrow we are heading downstate to run a river that runs through the state capitol. There is a small run of rapids that should be nice, and we can work on our paddling skills on the stretches of flat water.
My AKA, Gwen Hunter, has a writers seminar on Friday in the library of the small town of SUMTER, SC. I'm looking forward to it. And to signing in the local, Sumter, Waldenbook store.
Back to the restful grind of the rewrite!
Faith
Um...a rewrite. Which is actually fun this time! The rewrite letter (5 pages single spaced,) urk, looked horrible, but hasn't been. I am doing the hard copy portion streched out on the couch. Resting...
I also spent four hours yesterday making jewelry. Understand, that making jewelry is a way for my soul to relax. It uses totaly different parts of my brain from writing. I love it. And because of deadlines, I have not touched it for over eight months. Eight...months.... So I had all this stone-creative-energy damed up in me and it just poured out. I made two necklaces for Kim Harrison to look at and approve (note to self, email her about them,) and four necklaces for me! LOVE two of them!
On a less sitting-on-butt note, I also have been running a few rivers. Hubby and I took the Lower Green River in North Carolina in our hard boats. Hair-heads (hard-core, whitewater paddlers) will scoff at the Lower Green, but hubby and I are newbies and the Class IIs were about right for us. Maybe we'll run it again when it rains and the water level is higher. That will change the nature of the rapids and add a lot of spice to the run. We saw some amazing birds! Two males of different species who took the river part way with us. Got to ask David B. Coe about them.
Tomorrow we are heading downstate to run a river that runs through the state capitol. There is a small run of rapids that should be nice, and we can work on our paddling skills on the stretches of flat water.
My AKA, Gwen Hunter, has a writers seminar on Friday in the library of the small town of SUMTER, SC. I'm looking forward to it. And to signing in the local, Sumter, Waldenbook store.
Back to the restful grind of the rewrite!
Faith