So, I am on vacation this week. What's different about this vacation as opposed to every other since the early nineties is the anticipation of such a beloved event did not drive me totally insane last week. There was no urge Friday to bolt from my office as if the devil himself was nipping at my heels. For further proof, I actually worked on Saturday. It's not euphoria on this new job, but it's not gut wrenching nausea either.
I took this week off because Victoria is coming to town to team up with Rosemary and compete in an Iron Chef contest. Other than chasing around a few errands for the girls, I am pretty much free this week. And, as Rosemary will be preoccupied with Vickie around, preparing for the event (she's involved in organizing for her chapter of the All Children's Hospital charity), editing both of her books and involvement with our HOA, I really will be flying under the radar. She won't even have time to read this public display of gut spilling.
Question to self: So Mr. Free and Easy, how will you be spending your time this week?
I'll get up between four and five o'clock, head into my home office and rip off a sheet or two of morning pages. What I like best about MP's is there is no structure, no protocol, you just let your subconscious stream upon the page. By this time I am on the second cup of my customized half vanilla, half regular 8 o'clock coffee concoction. Next, it is off to about three hours of reading. I just started reading Dan Brown's Digital Fortress in order to break up the mainline of business non-fiction that I inject into my brain everyday. I am reasonably sure that all of the non-fiction that I've read over the past nineteen years has come to make David a fairly dull boy.
Wherever I go, I carry around a pen and notebook or paper. If I am inspired by an idea, I write it down. This, together with my morning reading time is an example of two experiences in which I get ideas to write about. The third is what I do next. Fire up the computer and check in on my favorite writers.
Next, I write. My best writing comes when I take the time to cluster a subject. Once the cluster is complete, I put is aside and come back to it a day or two later. Other times I forego the cluster and fire up typepad and go to town.
Well, that's as far as I've gotten today. I'll have to tell you about the rest. One cannot plan this type of vacation, one must live it.
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