{"id":269,"date":"2008-02-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiatravelblogarun.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/27\/william-dalrymple-on-travel-writing\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T12:00:00","slug":"william-dalrymple-on-travel-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/william-dalrymple-on-travel-writing.html","title":{"rendered":"William Dalrymple on Travel Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been reading Dalrymple’s City of Djinns right now, and can’t help but wonder how nicely written it is. Besides being a good book, the amount of homework and research he has done for the it becomes fairly obvious as I go through the pages. Sometimes, I did wonder how he can recollect some of the fine details. I got the answer to it today, as I stumbled upon Dalrymple’s say on taking notes.<\/p>\n

It’s absolutely vital to have a notebook in your hands at all times, and to scribble constantly, not so much full sentences as lists of significant detail: the colour of a hillside, the shape of a tulip, the way a particular tree haunts a skyline. Creating the finely-crafted prose comes later, back at home in front of the computer. On the road – even in a rickety bus or a bumpy jeep – the key is to get down the raw material before it’s lost to memory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article on travel writing by William Dalrymple here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been reading Dalrymple’s City of Djinns right now, and can’t help but wonder how nicely written it is. Besides being a good book, the amount of homework and research he has done for the it becomes fairly obvious as I go through the pages. Sometimes, I did wonder how he can recollect some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-4l","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}