I love going on vacation.\u00a0 It’s not just because it gets me away from whatever superficial problems I might be dealing with.\u00a0 It isn’t merely so I get a break from work.\u00a0 One of the greatest benefits that I receive by getting away for a little bit is this rush of writer’s adrenaline.<\/p>\n
When I finished As Darkness Falls, it was my intention to put down the pencil for at least a month or two before I took it up again to begin the next one.\u00a0 A friend and I ended up taking a short November vacation in Florida, and I took some things with me to pass the time.\u00a0 I took a Nintendo DS, some cards, a magazine, and, just in case a flash of inspiration struck me, I took a fresh notebook.<\/p>\n
I spent more time with that notebook than anything else.\u00a0 The pencil scribbled so furiously that I almost had to put out a fire on multiple occasions.\u00a0 When I arrived back home, it almost seemed silly to take that break that I had scheduled.\u00a0 Too much work had already been put into The Enemy Within, and I wasn’t about to stop.<\/p>\n
This past May was a repeat of the vacation from that November.\u00a0 I shared it with infinitely better company, and thought that my days would be completely planned out, but that wasn’t even remotely the case.\u00a0 I still made time for the novel, and it still welcomed that time openly.\u00a0 At best, I thought that maybe it was the Florida weather that had somehow inspired me so.<\/p>\n
Again, I found out that this just wasn’t the case.\u00a0 Rhianna and I took our last vacation of the year this past weekend.\u00a0 We went to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, and followed it up with a visit to Atlantic City.\u00a0 You’d think the pageantry and the knights would be nothing but pure fuel for the old imagination, and you’d probably be right, if I needed it.\u00a0 Even in AC, whenever I was given the chance to put my palm to the paper, it was there.<\/p>\n
There’s no real explanation that I have yet for why it’s so easy for me to write when I’m on vacation.\u00a0 I don’t know if it’s the idea of having nothing else in the way, or if it’s that feeling of being cut off from the people in my life that I would otherwise be involved with.\u00a0 In any case, The Enemy Within received a huge boost this weekend, and it might be done earlier than I anticipated.\u00a0 A little extra polish couldn’t hurt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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