![]() Oh well, at least we were holding hands-but in the emergency room of the nearest hospital! The only sunset we saw that day was the itchy, blistered fiery red one all over our arms and legs. I picked them for fun and they turned out to be poisonous giant hogweed. Which would have been a fine idea except for the little white flowers I found on the climb up, which clustered together to form lacy parasols. ![]() ‘We could climb to the top of the hill and watch the sunset from there?’ I suggested. I could see that the couple on the already-hired boat were smooching like the teenagers they no longer were and that they had no intention of returning to shore in a hurry. Only one damned boat for hire on the entire peninsula! My dreams of sailing into the sunset while holding the hand of my beloved were disappearing as fast as the daylight. My reluctant climb proved useless – he returned to Warsaw the next day and never contacted her again … Journal Entry 1: Natasha Lester As for me, what I actually wrote in my travel diary that day revolved around my Slovak friend dragging me unwillingly up this hill – I could see the sunset equally well from our seaside accommodation – because she was trying to attract the attention of a Polish man staying at the same place, but didn’t want it to look like a date, so a group of us trudged up together. ![]() I really love that all six of them came up with something completely different from each other. This was always tough, so I thought I would ask six of my clever writer friends to do the same exercise and see what they came up with! Hopefully their ideas will give us all some inspiration to keep our travel journals a bit more interesting (and less cliched) in the future. I had a bunch of rules to keep their writing sounding interesting enough to want to re-read it some day, but the biggest one was to try to avoid using cliches. In the course I used to teach at the local university about helping make your travel journal interesting, I always gave my students an exercise to write a journal entry about this sunset photo in Croatia. It’s hard not to because we’ve all read and heard and talked about sunsets using the same overused phrases forever. (Edit: My online course Travel Journal School is not currently open for enrolments – but you can sign up for the mailing list to be advised when this happens next.)Įver written about a sunset in your travel journal?Ĭhances are that you mentioned the standard yellow/orange/pink/red colours and then threw in a bunch of romantic cliches.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |