Congratulations Jan. What a fabulous journey you are so generously sharing. I love reading these email updates. For a moment I am utterly transported. It's such a lovely gift to be invited to join you on this journey - albeit vicariously! Your dedication to the art of writing and the process ... is nothing short of inspiring. Thank you.
Thanks Virginia, that's so good to hear. I vividly remember our travels together in Burma and the stories eveyone was working on. We were very lucky to have that time together there! Hope to see your writing out there too one of these days!
Great to run into you tonight at the op-shop gig and I've cycled straight home to check out your Substack project! This is the post I picked to delve in - just beautiful. Travel writing is all about the telling detail and I love the ones you've picked - Christo-wrapped billboards and two folding seats in the aisle. And the Lover theme refracted through the couple on the bus - love it. It's so synchronistic - I have borrowed Philip's copy of The Lover and have it sitting on my desk here ready to return to him tomorrow, with that Charleston-part hair cut staring up at me from the cover - so striking. And like you, her images are a huge flavour in her work. Thank you!
Oh wow, thanks for your comments Monique! So nice to hear. Synchronicity indeed. I have 2 or 3 copies of The Lover in case I mislay one and never lend them out. That’s very generous of Philip and even better that you are returning it!
So many laughs out loud in this chapter! I love picturing you and your furtive scribbling on the bus as “Dr. Pink” and Ms Costa Rica engage in their PDA’s.:)
Congratulations Jan. What a fabulous journey you are so generously sharing. I love reading these email updates. For a moment I am utterly transported. It's such a lovely gift to be invited to join you on this journey - albeit vicariously! Your dedication to the art of writing and the process ... is nothing short of inspiring. Thank you.
Thanks Virginia, that's so good to hear. I vividly remember our travels together in Burma and the stories eveyone was working on. We were very lucky to have that time together there! Hope to see your writing out there too one of these days!
Great to run into you tonight at the op-shop gig and I've cycled straight home to check out your Substack project! This is the post I picked to delve in - just beautiful. Travel writing is all about the telling detail and I love the ones you've picked - Christo-wrapped billboards and two folding seats in the aisle. And the Lover theme refracted through the couple on the bus - love it. It's so synchronistic - I have borrowed Philip's copy of The Lover and have it sitting on my desk here ready to return to him tomorrow, with that Charleston-part hair cut staring up at me from the cover - so striking. And like you, her images are a huge flavour in her work. Thank you!
Oh wow, thanks for your comments Monique! So nice to hear. Synchronicity indeed. I have 2 or 3 copies of The Lover in case I mislay one and never lend them out. That’s very generous of Philip and even better that you are returning it!
So many laughs out loud in this chapter! I love picturing you and your furtive scribbling on the bus as “Dr. Pink” and Ms Costa Rica engage in their PDA’s.:)
Oh, great to hear! Yeah, we writers are such voyeurs, mining every moment... Ms Costa Rica really did have a ferocious stare!
Writing is sex. The hidden,almost illicit thrill and passion. Love it.
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The section on flow is wonderful. Dancing is very much like being in flow - I did ballroom dancing at school so this section brings back memories.
Thanks Lynn, Oh did you? What fun! Yes, dancing is def being in the flow, a bit like flyiing!
Thanks Jan. I am enjoying your writing and the journey in these chapters.
Edit: here an “a” is missing?
. . . The Sea Wall, the Ream canteen is place where travellers, . . .
Oh yes, thanks!!