Write Every Day by Harriet Griffey;

Author:Harriet Griffey;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Published: 2020-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

Journey

A journey can be actual, or it can be metaphorical, but it has to travel through space and time towards some sort of conclusion. In doing so, those on the journey have some relationship to that space, a place, location, time of day and – possibly – its weather. These features will contextualise the space but also a character’s interaction with, or relationship to, it. One example of this is a memoir written by Raynor Winn called The Salt Path which is about both the surrounding nature of the countryside and the nature of grief on a 630 mile UK coastal walk taken by the author and her husband, after they had lost their home and learnt that he was terminally ill. See also Cheryl Strayed’s memorable bestselling memoir Wild. The story couldn’t exist without the Pacific Crest Trail of the US West coast, along which she hiked, aged 22, after her mother’s death.

Journeys aren’t limited to non-fiction, however. Walkabout, James Vance Marshall’s 1959 fictional account of two children walking across the outback, is all about their emotional and physical survival in relation to their environment. Or the bestselling novel by Rachel Joyce The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry where the main character walks to the post box to post a letter to an old colleague who’s dying, and then decides to deliver it in person and keeps walking for 87 days to reach her bedside. Told through the stories of those he meets along the way, at its heart it’s also the story of his own internal journey that’s being told.

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