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How to Write While on a Vacation

Ideas on how to keep it going especially during holidays when it is tough to dedicate enough time

Asmita Karanje
6 min readJan 11, 2020
Trek to Triund (Dharamshala) in India

I have never been able to write or workout while I am on vacation. Not because I am tuned out, or those grey cells aren’t working. It’s not even because I want to do full justice to the people around me, make most of my time in that place, and so the routine activities take a backseat. What I figured is I am pre-conditioned to think that I shall write in a certain place or in a certain time which in my case is my Home or Library.

So while on vacations or when I am pre-occupied with something in life, writing would assume a back seat, but then I feel guilty about not being able to write. So this time, I decided I shall continue writing.

I didn’t write the last weekend because I was flying and the weekend prior because we were moving houses. There is always going to be something or other that isn’t routine and not writing in those times will make me dislike that intervenes with my passion for writing.

Why is it essential to write on vacation?

There is a particular flow.

And not writing, unintentionally disrupts the flow — people who workout can understand…

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Asmita Karanje
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