When I first starting writing, I was under the creative wing of my junior English teacher in high school, a crafty and cheerful lady with a smiley countenance. Getting started was always (and sometimes still is) the hard part for my stories - where do we even begin as writers to create anything effective? How do we capture the human nature that we see, hear, and feel in merely words and sentences? Her response was "travel - experience happens when you're out of your comfort zone, really experiencing a new human experience than your norm".
In Flint Dodge I had a scene (in the next chapter) where Flint walks through the halls of the capital building on his way to the meeting, and after Googling what that looked like, I had tried to describe it in words. To my teacher, "there's more to be had in this passage. Go there, experience it for yourself. Everything is more spectacular in person". After traveling to Costa Rica last summer and experiencing their culture and way of life, I can definitely say this is true, and I hope to one day be able to travel enough to have adequate knowledge of the human condition to write more effectively.
Thoughts on this?
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