In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck. |
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. |
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place. |
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. |
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. |
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. |
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering. |
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. |
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. |