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tracing a mislaid reference
I can't find certain Writing Mags from 2007 (tho' naturally can find every one I'm not searching for right now!) - I'm looking for the issue(s) with feature articles by a freelance travel writer. I think there are two, in the second half of 2007. One article had a photo of the writer sitting in a desert in China, tapping out his article on an Alphasmart Neo word processor.
If this rings a bell with anyone, please let me know the name of the writer and the edition of Writing Magazine. I need the reference to complete an article, so of course it is the back copy I can't find :-)
Thanks for any help from more organised WM/WN subscribers
Cecilia
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Cecilia
The article - as I recall it - was about the business of travel writing - weight of packing, what to take, how to back-up and send copy from inaccessible places and so on.
Very good of you to think about it - thanks.
Cecilia
He wrote an article for WM in the February issue - not the one you're talking about. I do know that the article wasn't in the September issue, because that's an issue I don't have.
If I find it I'll post again, but it's rather late in my part of the world and I was just off to bed. If you don't mind waiting, I'll look again in the morning.
:o)
Yes - that's exactly what I wanted, and I have found the November issue. I became so tired and frantic looking for the article that I must have overlooked it, even though I thought I'd searched each magazine thoroughly. Eventually I went to bed, convinced that by mistake I must have put the magazine in recycling.
Hope that some day I can assist you, too. Thanks again. This is a nice friendly forum. I've subscribed to WM/WN for - oh maybe 10 years or more - but have only recently looked at the online facility.
Cecilia
Is your article about travel journalism? Who's it for? Hope you don't mind me asking...
My article wasn't for travel writing - in fact, it was just a practice piece that I may rework for some markets, but for the moment I have popped the present version onto my brand new blog, which is an IT experiment I have been putting off for a few years, being in principle dubious about blogs (http://cecilia-lenagh.blogspot.com/).
I'm off to bed soon - catch you later, as they say here in Australia.
Couldn't have done it without your help :-)
Cecilia
What were you doing in PNG? The weather sounds similar - it's our hot, wet season now and it's driving me troppo...
Claudia, I'm Irish - not from Australia originally, tho' have become a citizen and am very happy to be here. I live in NSW on the Mid North Coast, about halfway between Sydney and Brisbane. I spent 5-6 years in PNG with my family, 1990 - 1995, in Moresby and Lae. My husband's a librarian, and we went to Port Moresby for 3 years when the children were little, then to Unitech in Lae for another 2+, before coming to Australia. PNG is very beautiful - a life-changing experience, being there - but Lae, practically on the equator, is hot and wet at this time of year! A nice thing about Australia is the lack of malaria, at least for the moment. Are you in a malarial region?
Jay - I was referring to the malady suffered in the tropical regions of Australia - particularly in the Northern Territory, or Top End. When the heat and humidity gets too much, the fellas up there turn a little crazy. The expression is 'going Troppo'.
Cecilia, interesting life you've been leading! We were considering a trip to PNG next February, but unfortunately it worked out too expensive to reach from Fiji. (We're coming to Oz instead to do some diving.)
No malaria issues in Fiji. In fact Fiji is incredibly benign. Some of the bugs are big, but we don't have anything like the range of venomous creatures you enjoy in Australia. :0)
And speaking of big bugs - they don't have to be venomous to be scary. A massive cockroach landed on my arm in the shower a day ago. I practically teleported into the dining room - so fortunate we had no visitors at the time. There are some events which place too great a burden on the average friendship :-)
Wonderful image cecilia!
Funnily enough the very evening I posted the above, my husband spotted a very large spider high up on the bedroom wall as he lay in bed. He kindly pointed it out to me as I came out of the bathroom and suggested 'since I was still up' that I deal with it. To cut a long story short, he ended up in fits of laughter while I pranced around the bedroom in my birthday suit trying to eject the beastie.
I eventually won.