Kenya: Nairobi, Eldoret, Nakuru (tried to bike from Eldoret to Nakuru, failed and hitchhiked instead).Israel: Jerusalem (the shuk!), Tel Aviv, Arad (where I hiked eighteen miles into the Dead Sea Basin-amazing).Turkey: Istanbul (amazing rooftops overlooking the Bosphorus for writing), Diyarbakir (100 miles from the Syrian border, don’t ask), plus all the way across the Black Sea ( crazy 2,000 mile road trip).Croatia: Pula (one of the most amazing cities I’ve ever written in).Romania: Târgu Mureș in Transylvania (where Count Dracula’s castle is).Ireland: Dublin, Wicklow Mountains (where Braveheart was filmed).The U.K.: London (in college, was able to see thirty-two plays in thirty days), Stratford-Upon-Avon (Shakespeare’s birthplace), Canterbury.Here is a too-brief list of the places I’ve gotten to travel to, with an occasional not about my experience while there: For me, this has been incredibly rewarding for my writing. I’ve been very lucky to be able to travel extensively. A Brief Journal of the Places and Cities I’ve Traveled to as a Writer As I travel more (Japan 2020?), I’ll update this list. Note: I’m only including cities I’ve actually been to. And even Mark Twain sailed up and down the Mississippi on a steamship for several years. Oscar Wilde, a Brit, spent years traveling around France and then America (although Wilde’s travel was forced exile). John Steinbeck traveled around Cape Horn as a young man, then worked as a migrant laborer in Baja Mexico. Ernest Hemingway lived in Paris, East Africa, Spain, and Cuba. It was heartbreaking, and opened my eyes to a side of life and of the world that I rarely considered.Īnd for a writer, growing your worldview is essential.īenjamin Franklin, my country’s literary founding father, said, “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”Īs I began to think of my favorite writers, I realized that they often did both. She was volunteering at an orphanage for children who had been infected by HIV/AIDs. I think the first time I considered traveling the world for a year was while reading the blog of someone who was in South Africa. Read on for how to enter to win a flight to Paris! How I Discovered Travel Would Help My Writing No, I actually want to send you on a trip to Paris, one of my favorite writing destinations, on me. But I don’t want you to just take my word for it. In fact, I believe every writer should travel. How did I do it? It took so many things, but one of the first, and most important, was travel. I wanted to be a writer, was even writing part-time for a local magazine, but I didn’t know how to make my dreams of becoming a professional writer happen.įive years later, I had finally made it, and now, five years after that, I’m earning over $100k from my writing. How do you become a better creative writer? That was the question I was facing in my own life more than ten years ago.
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