The Problem with Being a Travelling Writer
When I set off travelling, I imagined myself creating art while on the move. Turns out, it’s not so easy…
Torre DeRoche is the author of two travel memoirs, Love with a Chance of Drowning (2013) and The Worrier’s Guide to the End of the World (due out September 2017). She has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian Travel, The Sydney Morning Herald, Emirates, and two Lonely Planet anthologies.
When I set off travelling, I imagined myself creating art while on the move. Turns out, it’s not so easy…
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to […]
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