Aug. 13, 2009 - Summer of Fun
Summer is over, well, almost over. Heather has come, and in a matter of hours, she'll leave again. I started getting depressed about it on Monday - when Molly and Anna went home - and after that flip-flopped between happy that I'll soon have a normal schedule again, and wondering what in the world I shall do without my SOS here. Thankfully I think I am finally making up my mind, and I thank God that it's the latter - a much less depressed way to say goodbye.
Summer is nice, to an extent, but I miss my sweaters and jeans, and I miss my schedule. You may find this odd, but I get more written during the school year than I do during the summer. Maybe it's like Chris Baty said: if you have nothing to do but write, you'll do everything but write. In the summer it's easy to put off "I'll do it later - I have plenty of time!" but during the school year I know that if I don't write in the morning first thing, I'll have to wait until school is done - so I do.
The one thing summer is good for is inspiration. This summer I have been blackberry picking, to a cute little town with many old buildings and antique shops that were just perfect for inspiration, I got to explore some woods, walk along a dirt road, watch my uncle shoo a bat out of the house, and see a little what it is like to run an "inn." I got to go to Bristol Renaissance Fair with my best friends and watched a joust in the rain. I got to go to the beach and get inspiration for writing about the ocean, met my SOS IRL and give her a hug. And then I got to run through the woods at the neighborhood park and climb trees with her in dress up clothes. It's been a full, fun summer, and now I just want to crawl back into my stories like a hermit crab into their shell and write.
Hopefully I'll get to work on that after Heather leaves today.
~ Katie
