Writing away : a creative guide to awakening the journal-writing traveler PDF
Preview Writing away : a creative guide to awakening the journal-writing traveler
Table of Contents Praise SOME OTHER TRAVELERS’ TALES BOOKS Title Page Dedication Epigraph Introduction CHAPTER 1 - Let the Wild Writing Begin Q&A Inspiration CHAPTER 2 - It’s the Intention that Matters Inspiration CHAPTER 3 - Write Two Pages and Call Me in the Morning Q&A Inspiration CHAPTER 4 - Travel Is Stranger than Fiction Inspiration CHAPTER 5 - Distance Makes the Art Grow Stronger Inspiration Q&A CHAPTER 6 - Journal to the Center Q&A Inspiration CHAPTER 7 - And Now for Something Completely Different Inspiration CHAPTER 8 - Don’t You Forget About Me Inspiration CHAPTER 9 - The Sum of Our Misadventures Inspiration CHAPTER 10 - Free Your Mind and the Words Will Follow Q&A Inspiration CHAPTER 11 - Tell Me the Truth Q&A Inspiration CHAPTER 12 - Having a Great Time, Wish I Were Here Q&A Inspiration CHAPTER 13 - Bring It on Home Inspiration Journal Prompts Recommended Reading Acknowledgements About the Author Copyright Page CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR Writing Away “Spalding doesn’t just give you ideas for keeping a travel journal—she makes a convincing case for why keeping one is important, and how this personal writing ritual can deepen your journey in unexpected ways. Recommended for anyone who endeavors to travel mindfully.” —Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding and Marco Polo Didn’t Go There “Whenever we travel, all that we experience vanishes far too easily, a victim of flawed memory. In Writing Away, Lavinia Spalding has given travelers a witty, profound, and accessible exploration of the hows and whys of keeping a journal. Novices and veterans alike will find inspiration and fresh ideas on every page, along with practical suggestions to bring out the best writer in anyone. Spalding seems to have read everybody who set pen to paper while on the move, and her narrative is laced with their wisdom and her own hardheaded yet searching advice. Best of all, she knows that the ‘memoir’ has grown ever more diverse wings. At once a worthy addition to the literature of travel and the psychology of writing, it is also a handy, encouraging toolbox. Buy two copies—one to meditate on at home, and another to dogear, underline, and carry alongside your own journal en route.” —Anthony Weller, author of Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road “Writing is a sacred and an irreverent art. As such, Spalding reminds us to journey conscientiously, to arrive awakened, and to write with all our hearts. This is a beautifully vital antidote to the frenetic buzz of blogging and texting, to be savored and shared.” —Alexandra Fuller, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and The Legend of Colton H. Bryant SOME OTHER TRAVELERS’ TALES BOOKS The Best Travel Writing The Best Women’s Travel Writing Marco A Sense of Place Polo Didn’t Go There Kite Strings of the Southern Cross 100 Places Every Woman Should Go A Woman’s Path Safety and Security for Women Who Travel The Royal Road to Romance 365 Travel The Spiritual Gifts of Travel The Road Within Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Stories to Live By for Erin who encourages me to rock my gypsy soul & Mom for saying go, saying write. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. —MOSLIH EDDIN SAADI Introduction For behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal, or a window opening on something more than itself. —ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Some years ago, while packing to move from San Francisco to Utah, I unearthed the journal from my first trip abroad, a college break I spent in Europe with my best friend. It was a fat black sketchbook with a colorful collage of ticket stubs and photos haphazardly laminated on the cover. Considering my stress level that day, I’m not sure why I took the time to open it, except that it looked inviting, and I’m a woman with a tender spot in her heart for procrastination. A familiar line caught my attention on the first page: “Our ride from Heathrow to the hostel was the scariest ten minutes of my life.”The journal was written in my hand, but younger—the cursive more deliberate, with wider loops and an endearing overuse of exclamation points and ellipses. What can I say, it was irresistible. Wild, wild horses couldn’t drag me away. Inside were my own experiences, but lived by another me—a young woman I recognized only vaguely. I sat sandwiched between cardboard boxes on the hardwood floor of my bedroom, reacquainting myself with a gutsy, curious, naïve, self-conscious, intense, bad-ass, twenty-something version of myself. The writing in my diary was raw, affected, and—let’s be honest—not good. And I already knew how the story ended. Still, I couldn’t put it down.
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