{"id":1484,"date":"2009-08-01T18:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T22:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailycoyote.net\/index.php\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2010-01-08T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T15:29:46","slug":"are-you-going-to-write-more-on-vespa-vagabond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Are You Going To Write More On Vespa Vagabond? (Or A Sequel To The Daily Coyote?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I am going to write more on Vespa Vagabond<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 My ride across the continent was too spectacular and too special to simply leave that blog and that story half-told.\u00a0 I just don’t know when I am going to do it.\u00a0 (As for a sequel to The Daily Coyote<\/strong><\/a>, perhaps, down the road.)<\/p>\n

Writing memoir, at least for me, demands that I go back completely to the time and relive it – every detail, every smell, every feeling – I have to see it and feel it in order to write it. I become fully immersed to the point of probably seeming crazy and the past is more real than the present. I don’t know how other writers work, but this is the only way I know how.<\/p>\n

While writing The Daily Coyote, I split my time between working with Charlie, and going into the past and writing. I did nothing else. I did not cook, I did not see my friends, I rarely showered. I lived and breathed my first year with Charlie in order to write the book, breaking only to spend time with Charlie.<\/p>\n

And while I loved living that way for the time that I did – it was surreal and dreamlike and so utterly romantic – I am not ready to go back into that space quite yet. I want to live in the present. I want to do<\/span> things, notice what’s around me, create with my hands, have adventures with my animals and the people I love.<\/p>\n

And with the way I work, I can’t do all those things and write about the past (Vespa Vagabond) at the same time. I have no idea if I’m explaining myself very well, but the point is, I love Vespa Vagabond. I will return to it. Sorry I can’t give you a timeframe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I am going to write more on Vespa Vagabond.\u00a0 My ride across the continent was too spectacular and too special to simply leave that blog and that story half-told.\u00a0 I just don’t know when I am going to do it.\u00a0 (As for a sequel to The Daily Coyote, perhaps, down the road.) Writing memoir, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}