Unique writers' resource. If you are and adventurer, sportster, explorer or pilot and want to tell others about your adventures one day, the information contained in this site will certainly help you get on your way to become a writer.
Who hasn't thought at one point or another to paint or write while travelling? Adventures, expeditions to far away lands and real survival experiences are topics that remain interesting for the public despite the passage of time. What Pigafetta wrote while travelling around the world with Magellan remains an interesting reading even today.
Plus, writing can bring additional satisfactions: if you have something interesting to tell, it is possible to transform that into a revenue stream.
Our website - Andinia - is made out of several thousand hours of programming work, of course, but also thanks to hundreds of log and diary pages written by our explorers thorough many years. We edited that material, added some useful new things, and so you have now our site for your enjoyment; essentially, anyone is capable of telling a story, to describe things and explain ideas.
And you don't need to be like Cervantes in linguistic and literary ability: H.P. Lovecraft was famous for his bizarre short stories and novels about strange worlds, dreams and proto - science fiction. His literary style was not that good, but his ideas and the way in which he used to tell them - by leaving a lot to the reader's imagination - transformed his ideas proper of a true madman into literary pieces.
It is ironic and sad that many people feel inhibited when confronted with a piece of paper or computer screen; you have to let go your inhibitions and start writing. Don't feel ashamed even before you present your writings; instead, write and practice and inspiration and style will follow.
Nothing worse than a 'no' will come as an answer, and there is always the possibility of publishing your material on your own, using the web; this has very little or no cost at all.
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