{"id":17105,"date":"2017-07-14T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=17105"},"modified":"2017-08-04T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:23:08","slug":"travelwrite-catharine-bramkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/14\/travelwrite-catharine-bramkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel\/Write by Catharine Bramkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Let\u2019s welcome back monthly columnist\u00a0Catharine Bramkamp<\/a>\u00a0as she shares with us \u201cTravel\/Write.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re not a travel writer – but you love to travel and you love to write, this post is for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Travel writing sounds so glamorous: get paid to see legendary places, sample unusual\u00a0food, sleep in exotic hotels, all on a magazine\u2019s expense account. Wow right?\u00a0 Except there are maybe four writers who get to work that way.\u00a0 The majority of travel\u00a0writers pay for their trips, write up the experience and work hard to publish those articles<\/p>\n

Except there are maybe four writers who get to work that way. The majority of travel\u00a0writers pay for their trips, write up the experience, and work hard to publish those articles in a blog, newspaper or magazine and often receive about\u00a0$1,000 for their efforts. So why bother?<\/p>\n

Because travel and writing are in your blood and your blood is made of\u00a0part oxygen, part helium, and part ink.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like all obsessive hobbies, writing about travel is pointless, costly and fun as hell; it can be found listed\u00a0in the same category as\u00a0water skiing, sky diving, or gourmet cooking.<\/p>\n

There is no why. There is just expensive equipment.<\/p>\n

The goal, and you hope, the ultimate outcome, is huge, massive satisfaction rather than any product.<\/p>\n

Often my only takeaway after three weeks in a foreign country is a small ceramic elephant and a clutch of poorly rendered postcards. And it\u2019s all worth it.<\/p>\n

Travel will extend your year and extend your life. Not those crappy years at the end, but next week. Spent on foreign soil, next week will last much longer than usual.<\/p>\n

But you know all this.<\/strong> There are blogs and blogs and blogs about the joy of travel: climbing Mt. Everest, hiking through North Korea, building schools in Afghanistan. You can find all those missives, read them, believe them or not.<\/p>\n

I love that travel is not a competitive sport.<\/strong> I don\u2019t have a count or need to see \u201cmore\u201d than another traveler. I don\u2019t need to stand in 100 countries. In fact, that 100 country contest? I actually counted the countries I did want to visit and arrived at 80. What countries of you want to visit Five? Ten? Travel to where you want, not to rack up a number, because no one cares. Most travelers will not ask\u00a0your score.<\/p>\n

For me, part of the adventure, if you can call it that, is traveling with my elderly mother. (I get to call her elderly because it\u2019s my blog post.) At 81, mom\u00a0is no hiker. She\u00a0walks like one of those wind-up toys that teeter along,\u00a0half step after half step\u00a0eventually falling off the edge of the coffee table. So scaling Kilimanjaro is out.<\/p>\n

But ushering her across the streets in\u00a0Mumbai was pretty damn exciting. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know it was exciting because I made a note in my journal, “Almost killed Mom today.”<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t edit while writing, but I do edit and editorialize on behalf of the blog or in telling the story to friends. With each telling, the traffic becomes denser, the street wider and Mom slower. It\u2019s my story and I\u2019ll enhance if I want to.<\/em><\/p>\n

What about you? You may be traveling this summer. Do you think you\u2019d like to write down some impressions, take a few notes, write up the draft for a poem that includes the bright summer sky, three new birds, and your elderly parent?<\/p>\n

All you need is a notebook. (See, this activity is already cheaper than base jumping.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yes, you can make notes on your phone. Of course, you can. When I pass by one of you doing this, hunched over, studious chipping away at the world\u2019s smallest keyboard using just your opposable thumbs, I am amazed, impressed, and can\u2019t help note that more time is spent figuring out the keyboard and checking that the notes are correct rather than enjoying the surroundings.<\/p>\n

Look up (especially if you\u2019re writing about birds).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bring the phone, but also bring a notebook. Notebooks free you from the distraction of technology\u00a0and encourage spontaneity.\u00a0Plus, no roaming fees. A good travel notebook is large enough for ephemera:\u00a0tickets stubs, postcards, coasters, business cards from the hotel, and small enough to fit in a pocket or purse.\u00a0Ideally, you can carry your notebook while wandering through a museum or sitting at a tiny cafe table.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t spend too much money on a fancy notebook;\u00a0it will just terrify you, you won\u2019t want to deface it with your pen.<\/p>\n

Pens, don\u2019t assume pens.<\/strong> Take the pens you love and take more than just that one.\u00a0As soon as you think, oh, I\u2019ll just pick up a pen at the airport, or I\u2019m sure there are pens available in Albania, there won\u2019t be. Take four or so, and scattered them through your luggage because a cluster of\u00a0pens rubber banded together makes TSA personnel nervous.<\/p>\n

Take a backup notebook. Sure you found the perfect one, but just in case, throw another into the bottom of your suitcase. That way you won\u2019t restrain your writing just because you have three pages to the end of the notebook, but four days left on the trip.<\/p>\n

Should you aspire to create a Pinterest-worthy notebook?<\/strong>\u00a0Nope. I follow those boards and am amazed and impressed with the level of talent and creativity scuttling around the world.\u00a0Some journals\u00a0are filled with perfect square writing and elegant watercolors.\u00a0Stunning works of art. Impressive. Impossible.<\/p>\n

If you are worried about your mother pitching off the end of the felucca, you won\u2019t have much time or bandwidth for stunning and beautiful.<\/p>\n

But you will have time for notes and impressions. Embrace the messy notebook. Revel in creating something that will never be ready for its close-up.\u00a0The fun of a notebook is making the notes. Write a poem around the paper napkin filched from the trendy restaurant. Make a couple of notes in your lap while your travel partners finish their coffee.<\/p>\n

Record the sound of a bird, describe a tree. Travel. Write.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For more inspiration, follow me on Facebook and on Pinterest and of course on the blog www.yourbookstartshere.com<\/a><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n

\"Catharine<\/a>Catharine Bramkamp<\/a> is the co-producer of\u00a0Newbie Writers Podcast <\/a>that focuses on newer writers and their concerns. She is a successful writing coach<\/a>, Chief Storytelling Officer, and author of a dozen\u00a0books<\/a>\u00a0including the Real Estate Diva Mysteries series<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0The Future Girls series<\/a><\/em>. She\u00a0holds two degrees in English and is an adjunct university professor. After fracturing her wrist, she has figured out there is very little she is able to do with one hand tied behind her back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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