It’s not exactly “Copywriters Gone Wild,” but for the next two weeks, I’ll be posting from a remote camp on East Grand Lake, Maine.

It’s a long ways from my home in the mountains of Northern California, and since I travel about as well as most cats swim, my friends wonder why I bother. Fortunately, I can offer you one very, very good reason:

The Copywriter Dream Vacation: Grand Lake Stream
The Lovely & Talented Nancy (L&T Nancy) relaxing at East Grand Lake, ME.

It’s pretty here. It’s pretty where I live too, but too much of the same kind of pretty breeds a familiarity. And frankly, when you start getting a little crispy around the edges, different is good. Different is our friend.

And while it’s hard to put a value on quality time with my wife when we’re both largely shorn of our career responsibilities, I will say that time’s worth its weight in gold.

Reason #2: The Copy Conveyor Belt

You know the copywriters who can churn out copy, and do so for months on end? Well, I’m one of the other guys.

As lucky as I am to write for a living, I can’t ignore the stresses it generates. We’re supposed to be creative, or persuasive, or hard-hitting, or engaging — and we’ve got to do it all on a deadline.

After a while, that dulls the mind and deadens the fingers, and when the projects blend together and you start dreaming in short, punchy paragraphs, it’s time to get away.

I’ve gotten away.

Still, expect to see a post or two. I’ve blown the dust off a couple of back-burnered post ideas, and I plan to sneak them in around all the rampant recreation we’ve got planned.

Keep writing, Tom Chandler.

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