Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an
overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert's bestseller, Eat,
Pray, Love) to write one's own memoir; the second, an explosion of
social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to
document and share their experiences instantaneously. Thus, the act of
chronicling one's journey has never been more popular, nor the urge
stronger.
Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing
Traveler, will inspire budding memoirists and jetsetting scribes alike.
But Writing Away doesn't stop there--author Lavinia Spalding spins the
romantic tradition of keeping a travelogue into a modern, witty
adventure in awareness, introducing the traditional handwritten journal
as a profoundly valuable tool for self-discovery, artistic expression,
and spiritual growth.
Writing Away teaches you to embrace mishaps in order to enrich your
travel experience, recognize in advance what you want to remember, tap
into all your senses, and connect with the physical world in an
increasingly technological age. It helps you overcome writer's block and
procrastination; tackle the discipline, routine, structure, and momentum
that are crucial to the creative process; and it demonstrates how
traveling--while keeping a journal along the way--is the world's most
valuable writing exercise.