The (best) reasons why I haven’t been blogging much this summer:
1. I just finished teaching three weeks of creative writing classes to several dozen children and teenagers. During their summer vacation. If you’ve ever taught children, you get what I’m saying.
2. When not teaching or planning the above-mentioned classes, I’ve been wrestling with two unwieldy freelance contracts and one frustratingly shapeless novel. I’m talking seriously shapeless. This is the two-by-four of middle-grade novels.
3. It’s summer! There are beaches to comb, waves to kayak, trees to climb, and patio drinks to sip. Which leaves very little time for blogging.
I have been tweeting away, though. Sometime in the last month I suddenly realized that Twitter is AWESOME, and not scary at all as I used to think. So I’ve been sharing bite-sized news and musings rather than full-length blogs. Which for now will have to do.
Another blog silence looms. In a few days I’m taking off to Ireland, where I plan to spend a Really Big Birthday hiking and horseback riding and wandering the streets of Dublin and Galway. And perhaps finding a few fellow Delaneys. I hear there are one or two of them in Ireland.
I’ll be back soon, hopefully in one piece, surely full of stories and photos. So for now, sláinte!
Have a wonderful trip!