To really survive long term, you’ll need to become a contributing member, earning your keep, and making your way as a productive member of Society Two-point-oh.

More writing drivel? Well, at the very least start the only-forward, sun-in-my-eyes, never-pausing-for-anything trot towards something new and fresh…

Lots of people have some sort of novel on the go, and I’ve hardly been an exception for — well, frankly — most of my life.

And I got to thinking about my writing over the last few months and, what with all the other projects I’ve been doing lately, haven’t really wanted to jump into a big, bold new fiction-based writing project.

Travel writing is a special kind of narrative story telling that seems to offer so much potential. At home, we write about the every day, the observable, or the experienced in almost every word we pen, but travel writing pulls us from the ordinary, routine, or commonplace and allows us to write about these things in an unfamiliar context.

So it’s officially been over a year and a half since I spent that one crazy November doing NaNoWriMo and, sitting in a local cafe, regurgitated a novel-length block of text onto the interwebs.