I travel a LOT. Mostly for work, like you, but also because there are places in the world that I have an emotional relationship with, and I need to maintain that relationship. I don't really do the kind of travel I think you're mostly talking about, which is more about Adventure and Seeing The World. I don't object to it, but I simply don't have time in my life for that, not after all my work travel and my "going back again and again to places where I feel at home" travel. I mean, I do also have a job. :)
My writerly relationship with travel is a very fraught one. I need to be at home in my own space in order to write, so this means that in periods when I'm travelling a lot, my writing always suffers. But having seen a lot of the world and at least to some degree learned a lot about (and in some cases actually internalized) cultures that are very different from the one I grew up in have enabled me to empathize more fully with people who are very different from me--and I think that makes me a better writer of the sort of psychological stories I try to write. I haven't figured out how to travel AND write, though. I wish I had a better handle on that.
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Date: 2016-07-10 04:05 pm (UTC)My writerly relationship with travel is a very fraught one. I need to be at home in my own space in order to write, so this means that in periods when I'm travelling a lot, my writing always suffers. But having seen a lot of the world and at least to some degree learned a lot about (and in some cases actually internalized) cultures that are very different from the one I grew up in have enabled me to empathize more fully with people who are very different from me--and I think that makes me a better writer of the sort of psychological stories I try to write. I haven't figured out how to travel AND write, though. I wish I had a better handle on that.
-J