Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler by Spalding Lavinia

Author:Spalding, Lavinia [Spalding, Lavinia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2009-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

• Plenty of us keep dream logs in our everyday lives, but at junctures of growth, movement, and transition, dreams are strongest and most telling. Observe how your dreams differ when you change environment. Who features in them? Where do they place you? Any recurring themes? Stash the journal and pen by your bedside with a headlamp, and record them the instant you wake up, before they dissolve.

• When we immerse ourselves in a new culture, the daily experiences we once found bizarre and bewildering—such as meals—turn routine, and eventually we quit writing about them altogether. You’ll regret not recording the names of dishes you feasted on that tumultuous summer in Casablanca. As traveler Scott Robinson puts it, “Much of the travel story—fried scorpions in China, bush rat in Africa—can be told through the stomach.” Keep a culinary chapter or a separate journal of recipes, menus, ingredients, and photos. Just don’t go overboard trying to include food in your writing—on her honeymoon in Belize, a woman I know wanted to remember the hot sauce, so she put some in her journal and wound up with a book of stuck-together pages.

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