(Warning! This post is not to ensue feelings of jealousy or the possibility of hitting the post author. These pictures are to help segue into a possible thought process. Please continue.)
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
I've been here<-----
(Adventure story waiting to be told involving vagrants, trains and buses).
Been here too
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Santorini, Greece.
I've traveled a lot. My travel bug may have come from being an Air Force darling, not brat. We moved twenty-eight times before I was a freshman in high school.
I'm not sure if traveling affects my writing as much as people watching does. Half of my stories have come from National Novel Writing Month, a third from my dreams and the rest from somewhere inside my brain.
I do believe traveling or the very least, exploring, adds richness to our lives which comes out in our writing. Trying new food, music, artistic outlet all will add to our viability.
Do all the places you've visited help you in your writing? Are you able to write more realistic characters or settings or stories?
What if you write science fiction? Visiting places might not help sci/fi writers. Or maybe it will...
Can writers get along on pure imagination? I think yes. Then again, if you're going to set your novel in Paris, you'd better know your way around, what the police are called and how yummy the food is because guaranteed someone will know too.
What do you think?
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