OK, time to confess. I missed two scheduled posts. Life has gotten too complicated. November, which is supposed to be shoulder season for the B&B, has turned into a mirror image of high season -- without Phil here to help me (he's still teaching.) On top of that, the contract job I took writing some documentation for the school where I used to teach has turned into one of those massive never-ending projects that demands what little spare time I have left. And now Qualmark says they're coming next month to assess our property (Qualmark are the guys in NZ who award the stars.) I'm lucky if I get one hour a week of creative writing in.
OK, I admit, two weekends ago I actually took three days off. Phil and I went to the Bay of Islands, took an overnight cruise weaving in and out of the islands, breakfasted with dolphins, shopped and relaxed. I did absolutely NO WORK at all. On anything. Quite an accomplishment in itsefl as I'm a workaholic. But I finally managed to get the message into my head that sometimes a rest is good and its OK not to work.
Even for a writer.
Call it a writer's date. That's what Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way) would call it.
It worked. I came back recharged with new ideas. Including a neat one for a novel set here in Thames.
Now if I only had the time to put them on paper.
Sigh.
Do you take artist's dates with yourself? What do you do?
Oh, that sounds lovely. I so envy the ability to do that. I haven't taken a date for a long time. Maybe that's what's missing. Hmmmm.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Cameron, an artist's date is anything you do to feed you creative juices. It could be a walk in the park, a concert or movie, scrapbooking, listening to music... You've probably been doing it without even realizing it.
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