Travel blogging starts with good writing
text by Prime Sarmiento photo by Nina Sarmiento What makes a good travel blog? Nice photos? Traveling to exotic places? Blogging every day? Hanging out in Facebook to persuade more people to join your fan page? Each travel blogger may have a different answer. But as far as this Gypsygal is...
Writing on the Run
posted by Prime Sarmiento One of the biggest problems that most travel writers have to deal with is, well, the problem of finding the time to write. When you’re off somewhere new and exciting, you just can’t get enough of it that sometimes, you forget why you’re there in the first place. To write of...
Finding the time for travel writing
I love to travel and I love to write about it because it’s the best way for me to communicate what I felt, seen, heard, tasted as a true blue gypsygal. What is frustrating, however, is that there are busy days and it was hard to do some travel writing (I tried writing in a...
The Art of Letting Go
First Published October 2005 at www.travelblog.org/bloggers/gypsygal In a workshop about Eros and the Divine, and its significance in writing, our writing guru, Jan Cornall, mentioned that the principle of Eros is about “being alive and feeling alive.” Tapping into that energy, according to this Aussie performance artist/playwright/poet/songwriter, will help us in our writing process. Meditating,...
Bored In Vang Vieng
First Published August 22,2005 at www.travelblog.org/bloggers/gypsygal Vang Vieng, Laos — After a 7-hour drive in unpaved, muddy roads; occasional toilet breaks in the bushes; surviving a road block (caused by a landslide) and heavy monsoon rains, we finally arrived in Vang Vieng. The laidback town of Vang Vieng, which is about 155 km north...