You are on the move. No time to write.
Are you sitting on the beach, waiting for a bus, babysitting, waiting for somebody to return from a meeting? Waiting for the tour operator to start the tour?
Yes, you do have time to write. Songwriters write songs on the move all the time. Just three verses. Preferably with a twist ending. Think of the song YMCA, written as the songwriter passed the sign in the street.
Carry a notebook and pencil in your pocket. An alternative is a five year diary which lets you have longer and shorter entries.
1 Plan time for a poem or short story or short scene in a novel chapter every day. Write the title whilst cleaning your teeth.
2 Write the first paragraph whilst waiting for the kettle to boil or the microwave to ping.
Write a chapter on the train or the plane.
Chapter one scene one queue for check-in. While your eyes are on your notebook, make sure your passport is in front of you, eg round your neck in front, and make sure your luggage is where you can watch it - in front of you or under your right foot as a footrest.
Entertain your invalid by asking them to tell you an incident from their life story day one of your trip or starting writing.
Write it whilst in the bath or toilet.
Think about a title whilst washing up or loading the dishwasher.
Plan a speech or short story or poem or song whilst swimming.
Read your story or their memory back to children, granny, next day.
You benefit by ending up recording their life story for yourself, descendants or to give them as a birthday present.
I wrote up my mother-in-law's life over dinner once a week and printed it for her as a birthday present.
A shortened version provides a couple of interesting anecdotes, even jokes to lighten the mood, for funeral speech.
Useful Websites
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781320840941?gC=f177369a3b&gclid=CjwKCAjwp_zkBRBBEiwAndwD9StYI_TMaWrCIX_QTTdJ0udBifE1sYILmXOuhrqPXZU8ihrN1O5RVRoCyYMQAvD_BwE
https://www.traveldiariesapp.com/en/Tour
https://www.amazon.com/Grandparent-Book-Keepsake-Journal/dp/0307453103
https://www.bookdepository.com/My-Travel-Journal-/
Travel-Journal
Author
Angela Lansbury. Please share links to your favourite posts.
Are you sitting on the beach, waiting for a bus, babysitting, waiting for somebody to return from a meeting? Waiting for the tour operator to start the tour?
Yes, you do have time to write. Songwriters write songs on the move all the time. Just three verses. Preferably with a twist ending. Think of the song YMCA, written as the songwriter passed the sign in the street.
Carry a notebook and pencil in your pocket. An alternative is a five year diary which lets you have longer and shorter entries.
1 Plan time for a poem or short story or short scene in a novel chapter every day. Write the title whilst cleaning your teeth.
2 Write the first paragraph whilst waiting for the kettle to boil or the microwave to ping.
Write a chapter on the train or the plane.
Chapter one scene one queue for check-in. While your eyes are on your notebook, make sure your passport is in front of you, eg round your neck in front, and make sure your luggage is where you can watch it - in front of you or under your right foot as a footrest.
Entertain your invalid by asking them to tell you an incident from their life story day one of your trip or starting writing.
Write it whilst in the bath or toilet.
Think about a title whilst washing up or loading the dishwasher.
Plan a speech or short story or poem or song whilst swimming.
Read your story or their memory back to children, granny, next day.
You benefit by ending up recording their life story for yourself, descendants or to give them as a birthday present.
I wrote up my mother-in-law's life over dinner once a week and printed it for her as a birthday present.
A shortened version provides a couple of interesting anecdotes, even jokes to lighten the mood, for funeral speech.
Useful Websites
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781320840941?gC=f177369a3b&gclid=CjwKCAjwp_zkBRBBEiwAndwD9StYI_TMaWrCIX_QTTdJ0udBifE1sYILmXOuhrqPXZU8ihrN1O5RVRoCyYMQAvD_BwE
https://www.traveldiariesapp.com/en/Tour
https://www.amazon.com/Grandparent-Book-Keepsake-Journal/dp/0307453103
https://www.bookdepository.com/My-Travel-Journal-/
Travel-Journal
Author
Angela Lansbury. Please share links to your favourite posts.
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