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I think it's always helpful to take some time away from a manuscript! Also I always try to remind myself that there is other work to do that isn't necessarily writing/editing (reading, brainstorming, research, etc.).
It’s so interesting how you start your piece speaking to feeling stuck with your novel writing and end with the imagery of being stuck in a whirlpool. Perhaps this is your writing whirlpool and like the saying goes, the only way to do it is to do it. At least that’s what it called to mind for me! Keep going, you got this 💪🏽
🤣 country bumpkin here 👋🏼 and I absolutely LOVE tubing!!! It’s the relaxed cousin of canoeing. Just drop your butt in a tube and go with the flow. Especially when you’re with a group of good friends 😁
The first time I ever canoed it was on the Buffalo National River and was told that it was a calm placid river. Just sit and steer. I was 15 and working for the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) for the summer. We over-nighted on the river. As hopefully everyone is aware, mountain rivers are prone to flash flooding. We had camped on a huge sand shingle and around 2 a.m. awoke with water running thru the tents! Mad scramble to get everyone and everything to higher ground. It was a cold, wet rest of the morning 😬
At 8 the next morning everybody loaded up and piled into the canoes. This was probably about 30 kids and 5 or 6 adults, and a few of these kids had NEVER been out of a city in their life and couldn’t tell a skunk from a black and white cat. ( No lie, 🤢 we had an ‘incident’)
The second half of that 2 day float took 2-1/2 hours 😅.
I have canoed the Buffalo MANY times and only ONCE was it the clear, placid, gentle float it’s famous for. 😬 Every other time it’s been flood stage or over.
Last time the canoe rental had told us the river was closed then the next morning called and said we had a window 👍🏼 it was open! We put in 16 canoes and then they closed the river again. 4 canoes made it back to camp.
😬 Proud to say mine was one of them and we picked up a couple of folks on the way down. Everybody would laugh because I was in the back steering and my husband would set up front and kick back and drink beer. They weren’t laughing when I got them back to shore 🤗
That was the worst flood in the Buffalo’s history at that time and I canoed it! The rangers were going up river in john boats yelling ‘rivers CLOSED’ and we were telling them where people were stranded on boulders and in trees up stream. Our campground was about 40 yards uphill from the river with a big gravel shingle and bathrooms about halfway up the hill. I almost missed it cause it was all underwater, just the top of the bathroom building sticking out of the water with the guys that had stayed in camp and some rangers yelling at us to put in 😂
FUN TIMES!!! We had a japanese couple with us, the husband worked with my husband. They capsized about 12 feet off the bank when we had put in and the wife said NOPE! they rode back with the canoe rental guys in the bus. By the time we made it back they had packed and headed back to Little Rock! Wife said NEVER AGAIN!!! They weren’t there the next year. 🤔
I think it's always helpful to take some time away from a manuscript! Also I always try to remind myself that there is other work to do that isn't necessarily writing/editing (reading, brainstorming, research, etc.).
It’s so interesting how you start your piece speaking to feeling stuck with your novel writing and end with the imagery of being stuck in a whirlpool. Perhaps this is your writing whirlpool and like the saying goes, the only way to do it is to do it. At least that’s what it called to mind for me! Keep going, you got this 💪🏽
you know, i didn't even notice that!
Rooting for you!!! You’re inspiring me to try and write as well 😊
🤣 country bumpkin here 👋🏼 and I absolutely LOVE tubing!!! It’s the relaxed cousin of canoeing. Just drop your butt in a tube and go with the flow. Especially when you’re with a group of good friends 😁
The first time I ever canoed it was on the Buffalo National River and was told that it was a calm placid river. Just sit and steer. I was 15 and working for the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) for the summer. We over-nighted on the river. As hopefully everyone is aware, mountain rivers are prone to flash flooding. We had camped on a huge sand shingle and around 2 a.m. awoke with water running thru the tents! Mad scramble to get everyone and everything to higher ground. It was a cold, wet rest of the morning 😬
At 8 the next morning everybody loaded up and piled into the canoes. This was probably about 30 kids and 5 or 6 adults, and a few of these kids had NEVER been out of a city in their life and couldn’t tell a skunk from a black and white cat. ( No lie, 🤢 we had an ‘incident’)
The second half of that 2 day float took 2-1/2 hours 😅.
I have canoed the Buffalo MANY times and only ONCE was it the clear, placid, gentle float it’s famous for. 😬 Every other time it’s been flood stage or over.
Last time the canoe rental had told us the river was closed then the next morning called and said we had a window 👍🏼 it was open! We put in 16 canoes and then they closed the river again. 4 canoes made it back to camp.
😬 Proud to say mine was one of them and we picked up a couple of folks on the way down. Everybody would laugh because I was in the back steering and my husband would set up front and kick back and drink beer. They weren’t laughing when I got them back to shore 🤗
That was the worst flood in the Buffalo’s history at that time and I canoed it! The rangers were going up river in john boats yelling ‘rivers CLOSED’ and we were telling them where people were stranded on boulders and in trees up stream. Our campground was about 40 yards uphill from the river with a big gravel shingle and bathrooms about halfway up the hill. I almost missed it cause it was all underwater, just the top of the bathroom building sticking out of the water with the guys that had stayed in camp and some rangers yelling at us to put in 😂
FUN TIMES!!! We had a japanese couple with us, the husband worked with my husband. They capsized about 12 feet off the bank when we had put in and the wife said NOPE! they rode back with the canoe rental guys in the bus. By the time we made it back they had packed and headed back to Little Rock! Wife said NEVER AGAIN!!! They weren’t there the next year. 🤔
thanks for linking to my piece! x