Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler (Travelers' Tales) (edit title)

Becky W edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler (Travelers' Tales) Thursday, August 20 2009.

• Added: Travel journaling rocks, let me show you how to do this / improve what you already do

Becky W edited the first sentence of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler (Travelers' Tales) Thursday, August 20 2009.

• There's nothing like the feeling of buying a brand new blank book.

Becky W edited the table of contents of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler (Travelers' Tales) Thursday, August 20 2009.

• Introduction

  1. Let the Wild Writing Begin
  2. It's the Intention that Matters
  3. Write Two Pages and Call Me in the Morning
  4. Travel Is Stranger than Fiction
  5. Distance Makes the Art Grow Stronger
  6. Journal to the Center
  7. And Now for Something Completely Different
  8. Don't You Forget About Me
  9. The Sum of Our Misadventures
  10. Free Your Mind and the Words Will Follow
  11. Tell Me the Truth
  12. Having a Great Time, Wish I Were Here
  13. Bring It on Home

  Journal Prompts
  Recommended Reading
  Acknowledgments

Shelfari edited the description of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler (Travelers' Tales) Thursday, August 6 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler (Travelers' Tales) Sunday, July 26 2009.

• Added a contributor: Lavinia Spalding: (Primary Author)