So here’s my question:  if you’re a freelancer, can you ever get a vacation?

It seems like the answer is a resounding no.  From Wednesday to Friday we went on vacation as a family, and I spent half of every day at the hotel working and writing, and then took my books for research with me for the other half.  So really, it felt like I was working most of the time, and at the end of it, i was still behind on my workload, hours, and personal writing.

It was wonderful to get away.  As I mentioned before, I desperately needed it, and I got in touch with some serious inspiration, which I really was really lacking, so in a lot of ways it hit the spot.  It was perfect; the perfect place, the perfect time and the perfect amount of time.

However, in October, I’m going to be taking more time off, both for vacations (some of my Scotland friends will be around the country!) and for some personal stuff, and I’m kind of scared to think about it.  Especially if I’m going places where I can’t be connected to the internet or really can’t do work for whatever reason, what on earth do I do then?  Give up the pay?  I don’t make enough money to be able to do that.  So how on earth do I manage that?

So, in essence, I’ll have to save not only enough to pay for the vacation itself, but also to cover the money I WOULD be making if I were actually working.  I don’t think I make enough money to do that in the near future, so how do freelancers manage taking a vacation?

Well, maybe the hard answer is, for right now, they don’t (I don’t, at least).  At least not without eating the deficit on my credit card.

Unless anyone else has thoughts?

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