In honor of Good Friday, please share a hobby/activity you enjoy.
The only rule is this: it must have nothing to do with publishing or writing. Not to say your hobby/activity doesn’t feed your storytelling brain cells, but if you have one unrelated to writing, this is the day and the space to share it.
And . . . go!
Oh! Me first? You got it!
Target shooting’s my game–if it fires a bullet, I’ll try it.
Okay–your turn, TKZers. What do you do when you’re not writing/reading/editing/marketing?
Paint in watercolor – something I learned in architecture school when projects had to be “rendered” in it on 30×42 inch boards (or perfectly in another medium)… I carry a small kit with me when I go fly fishing (another hobby) – if the fish ain’t biting, I’ll put the rod aside and pull out the small paper, pencil, palette and brushes and let the frustration of fishing (not called catching for a reason), ease downstream… sometimes from the bank, sometimes from the middle of the creek…
Traveling is my favorite thing, but when I can’t, gardening (in season), and drawing/painting/crafting. Like you, Deb, I love target shooting but the nearest target range is pretty far away, not like when we lived in a rural area and had farmer friends who set up their own ranges.
Love the visual arts like drawing & painting when I have the chance.
Fortunately, I live 2 miles from the beach, so I spend a great deal of time there ‘decompressing’. There’s something about the view of the Atlantic Ocean from my beach chair, the openness, the lack of boundaries, no distractions, the breeze, the sun, the soothing sound of the waves. It sure does relax me. I often watch the waves roll up the beach, then imagine tossing a problem to the edge of the water and letting the receding wave take it away, far, far away, never to be seen or heard from again. Occasionally, when I’m feeling silly, I’ll wave at the problem as it washes away. See what I did there? Wave and wave?
I have two, one new. For twenty-something years I have loved doing anything with clay and more recently flying.
Photography