In The Arctic, No One Can Hear You Not Writing

We decided that we wouldn’t do any work during our arctic adventure, because we were on vacation. Some of it counted as research anyway.

Our intention was to get right into serious writing upon our return home, putting the new post-retirement schedule into full effect. It was a good intention, enough to fill a few potholes on that proverbial road. Sigh.

It was probably too long a break. It went beyond resting up and feeling refreshed, to the point of getting a little too comfortable with being lazy.

Another thing that set us up badly is that we’re at a transitional stage in our process. If we’d been in the middle of writing prose, it probably would’ve been pretty easy to pick it back up and knock the rust off. But we’re in a sort of workflow limbo. There’s no breeze to fill our sails.

Of course, what we’d like to blame for all our problems is the clutter of day-to-day life that accumulated in our absence, especially the stack of crossword puzzles. That certainly didn’t help… but we’re caught up on crosswords now and need to stop making excuses.

A writing partner is someone who’ll help you get back on the horse, even if that means first figuring out where said horse wandered off to.