How to Travel and Maintain Your Daily Blog The road is great for inspiration, but it sucks when it comes to your writing routine Toni Koraza Apr 14 Photo by Dave Lastovskiy on Unsplash One of the reasons I fell in love with writing was the idea that I could do it from anywhere in the world. In my head, it’s possible to be completely location-independent while punching letters into something meaningful. You could be sitting in a cafe in Paris while ordering your latte with croissants, producing your best work. I imagined it to be a divine juncture of fresh, exciting experience and productive, artistic downtime. I’d wake up in the morning and finish my word count before breakfast, edit while waiting for my exotic lunch in the historic city center and get on with my night, drinking wine and chatting up the local birds and cats. Little to say, the reality was far away from such modern-day fable. I messed up my Medium publishing streak while planning my last trip. During the month of March, I published daily and on most days, I published more than once. It was all fresh-out-of-the-oven material. I would wake up each morning and vomit more than 2000 words on the page which would translate to roughly two Medium articles. Throughout the day, I’d shape those materials into something readable, and by the evening I’d have publishing material. I also did my freelance gigs and polished my dissertation. My writing system worked effectively while I was comfortable in my apartment, surrounded by my working space. The moment I got out of my zone, my writing discipline fell apart. I barely caught up with my freelance deadline, while producing something for Medium was so distant it seemed like it was an idea from another universe. I haven’t published a single post on Medium in more than two weeks. The thing that struck me the most was how slow my writing habits were translating to new places. When I arrived in Berlin on the second of April, I threw my luggage and immediately went to visit a few of my great friends. It wasn’t even noon when the first champagne cork flew through the air (what can I say; I love champagne over breakfast). I got drunk by mid-day, and I continued to meet other friends that just finished work. We don’t see each other often and we had just way too much fun to care about anything else. My girlfriend arrived later in the evening. I don’t get too see her that often as she lives in Oxford now. This was supposed to be our getaway trip. I was way too excited to just stop and discipline myself to write another article. Also, I don’t think it would bode well with my friends or my girl. It just didn’t look that important at the time and before I knew it, the whole day passed, and so did the second one, and later on, […]
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