It has been raining for most of our two-day stay up here in Lakeport, but that’s okay. I’m from Seattle, after all, and not terribly bothered by rain, except in the cases when we have to drive in it and people in SUVs are being a-holes.
But anyway, the sun has peeked through just in time for our drive home, which is great.
This weekend has been all about drinking wine and eating a lot. The food has been excellent all around. This morning our hosts/friends made us amazing homemade waffles with raspberry coulis, and served us a yogurt and fruit parfait containing the homemade granola that I brought to them. Nutty!
We made sure to get lots of relaxing and laying around done, in between big meals and wine tasting. Yesterday as I lay on the bed napping with Brian, I couldn’t get this picture out of my head of a scene in my book that desperately needs to be totally rewritten. I realized that if it was so vivid in that moment, that I HAD to just write it, so I got up and went to Brian’s laptop to knock out a couple pages. I am deleting something and replacing it with this, and I am really glad. It’s a lot better, for various reasons. The thing I am deleting was first conceived so long ago that it really just doesn’t belong anymore. A lot of my book is like that and I think a lot of the rewriting will be like that — things I wrote 9 months ago before the story and characters were fully formed are just going to seem weird now. Oh well. Like I keep saying, it’s still fun, so I keep doing it.
And now it’s time to go home. Just in time, we’d started to miss the cats. I want to listen to Band of Horses all the way back.
Ah, time away to relax and enjoy good company, good food and good wine. Nice to read and imagine, and now I am hungry!
aww. I’m sorry it’s over. Thank you so much for making it all the way over here. Glad you were able to relax a bit, that’s what it’s all about.
Say hi to SF for me.
Thanks for everything, karen!! We had so much fun with you guys, and we were both impressed with your b&b-running skillz.
i started reading your book a few days ago and i just wanted to tell you that it’s hard to put down! i find myself thinking, “what’s going to happen next?” all the time 🙂 too bad those stupid things called work, packing, and sleep get in the way or i’d be done already!
I’m having turmoil with my nonfiction book–my professor is expressing concern with what kind of book it is, and the organization, and I agree–and yesterday I drank way too much coffee as I was talking with him and felt like I came closer to maybe being onto something, but I’m not quite sure yet. and I”m frustrated b/c I want to rewrite my intro but I’m thinking I actually need to be focusing on pooping out more new stuff, not editing the old stuff, but I am afraid to put it off for too long. I’ll put it off until tomorrow for now, since I don’t have any current versions of what I’m doing here. Anyway. I wish I was on vacation.
I know what you mean. I spent so much time, literally months, revising what I had so far instead of moving on to the next chapter. I think part of me was just scared to write the next chapter because I can’t fuck it up or it will make a giant *thud*.