okay so im 21... not so bad? Ive never been anywhere in my entire life! getting worse. Im in a high stress job and my creative mind has crawled into the dank little place where it came from and WONT come out to play anymore! okay so now this is bad! So ive decided to travel, what do ya'll think, will it help me out of my warm cosy FUNK? Or should i be looking for something closer to home? I dont know... I think that maybe travelling will stagnate my writing, you know SO many better things to do, it still might be a good experience though. Oh yeah my POINT lol Has travelling helped your writing at all? Id love to hear some thoughts.
travelings even better if you cant afford to do it travelings best when u just gotta travel or your scream and go crazy but..my point is if stagnation isnt exciting you then let motion be your lotion adventures and creativity go hand in hand exploration of the outter world makes inner exploration so much easier writting alwayssufferes when your noit living your life your only existing in it (not saying your wasting your life or time now) wheres the inspiration in 4 blank walls that only stare back at you without offering 1 flicker of enlightenment? when you see the world from a mountaintop you see far more then you imagined existed when the entirety of your experiences change drasticaly day by day baesed on where you are and who your with life takes on a richness that words have dificulty describing i guess im tryin to say it cant hurt to travel.. and if your not inspired where you are..then go off in search of inspiration
WORD! I back that 100%. If your in Australia try spearfishing, or if your not the hunting type, scuba diving. Its amazing theres a whole other world down there.
I've been kind of travelling for a while now... I haven't lived in my home country for three years. I guess I have seen some things, but I think the most important part of travelling isn't really what you see or where you go or what happens... it's just the fact that you're moving around. So really, it's as simple as saying to yourself 'just go!' If you're worried about money, there's always English teaching... it's a good way to see Asia, I think! But if you can't afford to drop everything and go somewhere, try just spending a night in a hotel. Better yet, try posing as someone different! I got so frustrated with things at one point that I invented a whole new identity and talked to people and told them a story, then came back and went to work and it was a lot easier to deal with everything...
I was in the biggest creative rut I've ever been in and one thing that REALLY helped kick me out of it was spending 2 weeks in the Sahara desert. I can't say exactly what it was. I guess, when your holed up for 6 months on end then sitting on a train and watching Mountains rise up and Oasises appear out nowhere affects your mind. You know, it uncages your spirit a bit. Something inside you says "Holy fuck, the world is a bigger, much more amazing place than I thought, even if I can't get any fucking vegetarian food in this overgrown sandpit" And you know what, you find a flow that exists somewhere inside you, you tap into something that naturally has wings. That's the part of you that needs to write and that's the part of you that flys. I say go for it. Don't expect it to work. Don't expect your arrangements to go to plan. Don't expect to not get ill. But fucking enjoy it and if you don't write, fine you've had a damn good experience. But I bet you a metaphorical fiver that you will be running out of notebooks before I can say supercalliphragalisticexpiallidosious. Much Love Sebbi
