Creative Writing Ibiza

For a spine-ripping blast of inspiration check out the story of Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Paul Salopek who is preparing to do a 22,000 seven year walk from Africa across Asia through the Americas, tracing the route anthropologists believe was the first path humans took out of Africa to populate the rest of the world.

The Wanderer by Johnny Cash from…

Excellent advice from Paul Graham's essay
'How To Do What You Love'

Although doing great work takes less discipline than people think — because the way to do great work is to find something you like so much that you don't have to force yourself to do it — finding work you love does usually require discipline. [...]

Sometimes jumping from one sort of work to another is a sign of energy, and sometimes it's a sign of laziness.

I've been in one of my Hemingway periods (long bouts of thinking followed by short bursts of writing) and find work on The Book slow as a consequence. To that end I promised myself three hours of today of proper pen-to-paper writing.

For me, the following rough-cut excerpt is the closest I've yet come to saying what I want to say.

The Irrawaddy Literary Festival flashed up on my radar yesterday.

What? Burma / Mayanmar's first ever English language literary festival.
When? 1-3 February, 2013
Where? Inya Lake Hotel, Yangon, Myanmar
Who? The indomitable, inimitable Aung San Suu Kyi is the patron of the festival, who said:

I am delighted to lend my support and personal participation to this first Irrawaddy Literary Festival.