What I did on my summer vacation

I wrote a novel.  This is probably just evidence that there’s something skewed about my perception of “vacation.”  I was supposed to go to the Iowa Summer Writers Conference for my vacation, but alas, flooding in Iowa City killed that.  So, what did I do?

I went to my sister’s house in lovely Wichita, KS, for two weeks and wrote a novel.  Obviously, the book still needs a little work, but the bare bones of it are there, about 60,000 words of it.

Unlike my friend Lisa, I don’t even have the sense to write a novel that would give me an excuse to go to some exotic locale for “research.”  Oh no, not me.  I spent two weeks in Kansas, writing a novel that takes place mostly in rural Oklahoma and Texas.