For me, travel is like unlocking worlds of stories to explore and enrich my life and craft. It’s even more intoxicating than cracking open a new book to read, but can be compared to it. A city, for instance, is the combination of millions of stories connecting like the cogs of a machine to function as a dysfunctional whole, kind of like the words of a manuscript first draft.
This is a photo of Ireland’s Eye from a golf course sat above Howth Castle East of Dublin. The town of Howth down the hill was a quaint harbor and fishing town that reminded me of the islands I grew up around along the New Jersey shore.
I thought of how this town may have inspired Irish writers from all over the Emerald Island, and how the land might have shaped them as writers. I’m always aware when I write of how the places of my past get massaged into my writing.
Writing Tip:
In your everyday life be receptive to the soul enriching stories of people and places, and the worlds you create in your writing will be as layered and raw feeling as our own world and histories. So, while travel might make a better writer, it only takes the perspective of a traveling writer to unlock the nuggets of life that have the ability to enrich your writing.
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Alexander Casillas
Alexander Casillas 