Dear Kristin,
How is it already time for lunch where you live? I just woke up, stumbled to the tea kettle, and briefly considered going back to bed. I never imagined the time difference would make the distance between myself and nearly every one I've ever known feel so real. I imagine writing these letters on precious paper with a quill pen, having them delivered by the pony express or something, and winding up on your neighbor's door six months later, only to be blown away by the wind. At least now there's this.
I envy your beach time. Even though we now only live the miles from a gorgeous beach, we've been so busy, so much, that I've only been once. Having only one car doesn't help. But, I'm sure that once we get into a routine and familiarize ourselves with this place, we'll be able to go sit on the beach and read all day. In the meantime, I'm revising and revising and revising.
The rewrite was a little bumpy, but on the whole not too bad, until I got to the current chapter. Two characters meet, they make friends, they begin a new chapter (literally) together. Why is this so hard? Why does it continue to ring false? When I wrote this chapter the first time it was hard. It drove me a little crazy and I had to watch endless amount of Cheers reruns to recover. Here we are again and Geraldine is driving me crazy. Hopefully I'll get past it today and my next post to you will be about how successful I feel the rewrite went.
For now, I'm going for a run. Hoping to clear my head.
I'll leave you with a picture of me and the ocean.
Love,
Rose
How is it already time for lunch where you live? I just woke up, stumbled to the tea kettle, and briefly considered going back to bed. I never imagined the time difference would make the distance between myself and nearly every one I've ever known feel so real. I imagine writing these letters on precious paper with a quill pen, having them delivered by the pony express or something, and winding up on your neighbor's door six months later, only to be blown away by the wind. At least now there's this.
I envy your beach time. Even though we now only live the miles from a gorgeous beach, we've been so busy, so much, that I've only been once. Having only one car doesn't help. But, I'm sure that once we get into a routine and familiarize ourselves with this place, we'll be able to go sit on the beach and read all day. In the meantime, I'm revising and revising and revising.
The rewrite was a little bumpy, but on the whole not too bad, until I got to the current chapter. Two characters meet, they make friends, they begin a new chapter (literally) together. Why is this so hard? Why does it continue to ring false? When I wrote this chapter the first time it was hard. It drove me a little crazy and I had to watch endless amount of Cheers reruns to recover. Here we are again and Geraldine is driving me crazy. Hopefully I'll get past it today and my next post to you will be about how successful I feel the rewrite went.
For now, I'm going for a run. Hoping to clear my head.
I'll leave you with a picture of me and the ocean.
Love,
Rose
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