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

[Galen Wilkerson]

Hi Sally,

Yes, definitely travel writing.  I just sent another message to the list
about this.  I enjoy writing (when I have something to say), and I have
toyed with the idea of a webpage too.  Also, I have started contacting
local groups about presenting my walk to them.  I think especially in the
US we could really benefit from this, especially now.  Mark Twain mentioned
something about travel defeating ignorance, and he is very right, not that
I think "doing good" is a good reason to do this, but rather because I
enjoy it and could share it.

In fact, I've already submitted my camino journal to a publisher who's
interested in writings about backpacking in europe.  Maybe I should edit a
book about the camino!

Galen



On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:38:27 +0000, Sally Haden <hadense1948aHOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>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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