I have a good routine at home that provides me ample opportunity to write and edit. Routines are severely disrupted by travel. It’s easy to let the details of travel preoccupy my mind, not to mention the increased tiredness. It can help to state to my partner that I’m having difficulty writing and may have to let my goals go. That was enough so that after saying that, the next morning, I resumed my work on French Fix. I sat on the deck at our airbnb and added material to chapter seventeen while my husband slept and the laundry dried. It was a very good use of all of our time.
Luckily, I believe in refilling the well and can regard time not actively editing or writing on a specific project as doing that. Pretty sure I’ll have a character who has dinner with family and friends every night for two weeks as an example of a good visit back home. But, even if I don’t use the trip in my writing, it was very good to connect with people in person.