Butt in chair time

I do love my hermit crabs!

by Christine Kling

The concept sounds great. Writing is a very portable skill, so why not choose to live on a boat and sail all over while writing?

The problem? Keeping that butt in the chair when there are so many sirens calling you away.

For Christmas, Wayne gave me a new underwater camera. It’s an Olympus Tough TG3 and it takes really terrific underwater photos. It has not one but three special settings for shooting underwater. When the fish are skittish, like they are around here, it takes time and good breath holding to get a good shot. There’s a reason I like to shoot hermit crabs —they’re slow. You see, taking underwater pictures is another skill that takes patience and practice.  These days with the deadline for the new book a little over two months off, I have time for neither.

So I got this great new camera, and I’ve only been snorkeling with it once since Christmas. Every day, I look longingly at the reef and then head down to my office to try to get inside the heads of some really nasty bad guys who are out to destroy the world. And when I get there and stick my butt in the chair, I think to myself—

DAMN! Am I lucky or what?

Fair winds

Christine

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