Two major trends have recently swept the travel world the first an overwhelming desire thanks to Elizabeth Gilberts bestseller Eat Pray Love to write oneamp8217s own memoir the second an explosion of social media blogs and texts which allow travelers to document and share their experiences instantaneously. Thus the act of chronicling oneamp8217s journey has never been more popular nor the urge stronger.Writing Away A Creative Guide to Awakening the JournalWriting Traveler will inspire budding memoirists and jetsetting scribes alike. But Writing Away doesnamp8217t stop thereamp151author Lavinia Spalding spins the romantic tradition of keeping a travelogue into a modern witty adventure in awareness introducing the traditional handwritten journal as a profoundly valuable tool for selfdiscovery artistic expression and spiritual growth.Writing Away teaches you to embrace mishaps in order to enrich your travel experience recognize in advance what you want to remember tap into all your senses and connect with the physical world in an increasingly technological age. It helps you overcome writeramp8217s block and procrastination tackle the discipline routine structure and momentum that are crucial to the creative process and it demonstrates how travelingamp151while keeping a journal along the wayamp151is the worldamp8217s most valuable writing exercise.