Traveller
Good afternoon, my Lovelies! It's that time of the week and I'm ready to brighten your world with my amazingly insightful ramblings. Or, show you more of my crazy. It's up to you to choose how you receive it. How's your week been? I hope it has been fantastic! Mine? Well, it's my first week back to work after vacation. How do you think it has been?
Truthfully, it hasn't been horrible. We got a foot of snow on Monday and I had another day added to my time off. We don't get snows like that often here. You see, no matter what people across the United States think, Delaware is NOT in the northeast. We are not north. Delaware sits about the middle of the country on the eastern shore. For some insane reason, we always get clumped together with Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont. Learn your geography, people!
Anyway, I don't know why, but snowfall like what we got makes me think of the mountains. Thinking of the mountains makes me think of travel. And thinking of travel constantly reminds me of the fact that though I have traveled rather extensively within the USA, I have never been outside of our country.
I was having a conversation with a good friend recently and we were talking about all of the places he has visited (44 countries! Insane!), and I'm simply in awe of the initiative he has taken to see the world and experience new and different cultures. His question to me was, "Where's the first place you would go?" I think I have said it before in my blogs, but if I ever get the opportunity to do any serious traveling and visit another country, my dream destination, the one location that I have to insist on going to, is Ireland. It's a thing for me, ok?
I'm sure you're asking, why I've not gone. Well, there have been multiple reasons, but that's for another day. I'm sure you're thinking that I should just do it, right? Well, if I can ever make the career change that I want, then I fully intend to.
You see, I can write anywhere. If I can actually make a living with my writing, I can go wherever, whenever and stay as long as I like. Have laptop - will travel. Truthfully, it may even help my writing to be able to go and see new things, spark my imagination. I mean, I can write you a creative romance/sexual scene, but if I had the proper surroundings to draw from, I could make you feel like you're there. I could make you feel like it's you that is experiencing the pleasure. I could make you see, hear, smell, taste what the moment entails. But until I've immersed myself into those settings, I can only go off what I myself have read or been told.
Allow me to show you what I mean.
"He reached for her, drawing her body to his and letting his hands smooth down the long line of her waist as they stood watching the waterfall as it splashed in a free fall into the lagoon."
"He reached for her, drawing her body to his and letting his hands smooth down the long line of her waist as they stood gazing at the rushing waterfall as the winding river from above fell and plundered, roaring to the depths of the lagoon below, sending ripples down the stream - ripples they themselves felt within their souls." (Or something along those lines.)
Can you see how much better I could make things for my readers if I could get first-hand experience? (I'm talking settings here, people...mostly.) Obviously, I've been around a waterfall before, but you get where I'm going with this.
So how do I make this happen? Can someone please fill me in? All suggestions are welcome!
Also, if anyone can tell me why my TikToks are promoted more in other countries than my own, I would seriously appreciate it. I'm so confused.
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