Re: [Paddlewise] Journaling

At 07:13 PM 11/15/99 -0600, RiDem wrote:

>
>The reason I mention these  sites are that many paddlers DO write for
>friends & family, but often distribute their work, with the sort of
>embarrassment better reserved for Xeroxed "Christmas Letters" beginning with
>"Dear Friends..".  Paddlewise is a great venue to share experiences and Trip
>Reports ( Woodards site http://www.tidalwave.net/~woodardr/Tripndx.html   is
>a good example) And in my VERY opinionated view, I think that the best
>travel writing is being distributed informally, as the publishing
>establishment thrusts the Jon Turks, Kasselbaums (sic), and others into our
>face via the slick magazines and mass distributed paperbacks. The
>non-commercial stuff, this "small and self distributed writing " , is like
>the Russian 'samizdat'...it is distributed informally, amongst friends, but
>calls for a wider audience, I think.

I agree wholeheartedly. There's nothing I enjoy reading more than someone's
trip report that contains largely unedited descriptions of real happenings.
Not conquering Everest or paddling across an ocean, but just their reation
to eagles in a mating dance, or fighting the wind across a long reach, or
whatever. I've enjoyed Woody's stuff, and would like to see more of it from
others.

-- Wes

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