How Not to Spend your Summer (If You're a Writer)

Q: What did you do this summer? Did you take a break from writing? Continue to write while you were on vacation? Change your writing habits at all?
- from Susan
This question embarrasses me. I didn’t write as much as I promised myself I would. So many excuses but I think there are two that might be relevant to serious writers. First, I have no contract, so no externally imposed deadlines, the first time since I got an agent in 2008 that someone isn’t waiting for my manuscript. Doom, doom…....