post-camino...... Writing about the experience of the Camino

[Sally Haden]

Hi Galen
it was interesting to read about your post-camino experience, in which you
mentioned that unfortunately you now wonder how to get a job...

>So, in Toulouse and now, I spend days and hours in front of the computer,
>sending and re-sending my CV.  I even had interviews in a few places in
>France and Spain.  Guess the result of all this???  NADA!
>
>Ah well, every no is a possible yes to something better.
>
>I'd be interested in hearing any feedback about all this, constructive,
>unconstructive, humorous, or otherwise.  If you are in the same boat, maybe
>we can just branch off from the existing economy and form our own, and just
>give each other jobs.  :)

Galen, I had a thought, which may or may not be of use to you.  And I wonder
if others might add their tu'penni'worth...  It is the idea of getting busy
writing about one's experience of the Camino or writing about the Camino in
some way.  I know that right down history people have gone home and written
books or exhibited art, and now people go home and start a website too.  It
seems to be to be a very creative way of dealing with post-camino
experiences.  Not that I have done either (I haven't even been to Spain
yet.)  But I am thinking that as I am already at a loose end even before I
go to Spain, and I want to experience some of the Camino next year, I should
consider that sort of 'travel writing', if it can be labelled such.  More
like 'pilgrim writing' , but I doubt many publishers have heard of this term
as a recognized genre!

Would anyone like to add suggestions, comments, information, book
recommendations.... about writing on the subject of one's own pilgrim
experience in particular, or about the Camino as a place for travel writing?
  I can't imagine that  travel writers ever rise to the rarified heights of
'richness', but perhaps it might bulk out a modest pocket from time to time,
and keep one's fingers busy.

Sally
Lancashire, UK

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