First off, a white-dust welcome to Christy, who compulsively blogs on her site Juvenescence. Christy, congrats on your forthcoming novels in 2010 and '11! I know a few Chalkheads who are editing their manuscripts as I type this, so you all have much in common already.
Okay, so I'm leaving on that thing called a big freaking jet plane and won't be back again until July 28th. After days of contemplating, I've decided to take the laptop. Even though the In-Laws live in the unmapped town of Oberhoffen (correction from: Thun), Switzerland, somehow they've setup a wireless connection, so I'm going to use it.
The Master Plan: to blog and post pics during the trip for entertainment and personal value.
So if you want to sight-see through Switzerland and Italy for three weeks while sitting on your couch or in your hard, flat desk chair, you can. All you have to do is click on over here every so often and do a little reading and picture browsing and then maybe leave a comment or two making fun of my point-and-shoot photographs and misspellings of foreign words.
The Master Plan Part II: to get some writing done on MG novel #2.
It would be easy to leave the laptop at home and be complacent, but I can't because when I return I'm attending the SCBWI Summer Conference here in LA for four days and then before you can say Labor Day school begins looming like the shadow of a giant UFO. So the point is, even though I'm traveling and supposed to be enjoying myself in some kind of suspended reality dreamland, I still want to write. My theory is:
-- If I can write while sleeping in foreign places and lands, I can write anywhere. --
Oh, and I'm taking my running gear. I'm also hoping to do a little bit of that. The body fuels the mind and I believe it. We'll see how it all shakes out. Blondie has been talking about "little hairpanes" and "big hairpanes" for weeks now. For those of you without offspring, that's "airplanes."
-- tew
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