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No Intent on Arriving
Oct. 29th, 2006 09:31 pm"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." -- Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C)
I remember reading this quotation in the liner notes of Loreena McKennitt's The Book of Secrets. Part of the reason I enjoyed her music was reading her running travelogue. I felt like I was seeing the world from the comfort of my relatively boring life. The sounds and images inspired me.
So I suppose I really shouldn't be surprised at how travel has impacted my fiction writing. Almost all of my Nanowrimo novels have been directly inspired by my trips. I saw a lonely island with a lighthouse off Vancouver Island and pictured a sorceress keeping watch over those waters. I took a simple train trip to Baltimore and felt myself transported to another time and place coming out of the tunnel.
( No Intent on Arriving )
And that is how I found myself writing "No Intent on Arriving". The screen cap is of the Middle Gate of Heaven at Taishan Mountain from Michael Palin's "Full Circle". If anyone sees other Asian inspired icons, let me know.
I've stopped trying to understand exactly how my mind works. It's better that way.
I remember reading this quotation in the liner notes of Loreena McKennitt's The Book of Secrets. Part of the reason I enjoyed her music was reading her running travelogue. I felt like I was seeing the world from the comfort of my relatively boring life. The sounds and images inspired me.
So I suppose I really shouldn't be surprised at how travel has impacted my fiction writing. Almost all of my Nanowrimo novels have been directly inspired by my trips. I saw a lonely island with a lighthouse off Vancouver Island and pictured a sorceress keeping watch over those waters. I took a simple train trip to Baltimore and felt myself transported to another time and place coming out of the tunnel.
( No Intent on Arriving )
And that is how I found myself writing "No Intent on Arriving". The screen cap is of the Middle Gate of Heaven at Taishan Mountain from Michael Palin's "Full Circle". If anyone sees other Asian inspired icons, let me know.
I've stopped trying to understand exactly how my mind works. It's better that way.
