- writer Edan Lepucki
Reading this today, I felt grateful that I don’t need to do anything so drastic to clear space for “reading and daydreaming,” to keep my mind “flexible and daring.” But then I thought about how a story of mine that should be a novel by now just sort of dozed off after these sentences. I thought about all these library books I want to read.
At no point in thinking about my hibernating novel or my hoard of library books did I consider following Edan Lepucki’s lead and swearing off blogging until January. I wondered, though, what it would be like to take a break until, say, October. Then, tonight at my birthday dinner, I found myself telling my wife, my kids, and my mom about Edan’s hiatus and floating the idea of taking a five-week break of my own, a break that would stretch from my birthday until just after my wife’s birthday.
I’m doing it.
It feels wrong, but the jonesing sort of way that it feels wrong tells me that it’s right. I hope to be back here on or around October 7th with a revived novel and some images that show my photography moving in a fresh direction.
Many thanks to all of you who have encouraged and inspired the work I’ve done here.
- David Quigg, 9/1/2001
To reach me in the interim: quiggblog [at] gmail [dot] com
REVISED (9/2/2011) to reflect that the 35 days until October 7th mean a break of five weeks rather than seven. I will also be using this time to work on my math.
