FROM JOURNALING TO PUBLISHING

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A Methodology for Researcher-Writers

Narrative journaling as a processual methodology

• Can be used in Masters & Doctoral Research
• Matures into a processual practice for professional writing and place-making

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Storytelling with literary tourism

• Used to create literary travel pieces that are
• Cultural artefacts with a title that have ‘keep-ability’ and are accessible to general public readership

Narrative Journaling plus Storytelling

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'they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake'

Dorothy Wordsworth 1897 The Grasmere Journals

PRETEXTS FROM READING OTHER WRITERS’ JOURNALS

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THE TWO LAKES

Surface area 28 km² Average depth 41 m

2. Lake Annecy, France

1. Lake Garda, Italy

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Surface area 370 km² Average depth 136 m

Limone sul Garda

Riva

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Sebald’s travel writing creates sites for literary tourists to visit. His writing acts as an interactive surface between Sebald’s experiences and

Kafka’s journaling in the diaries.

Later we will explore the opportunity for a literary travel writer to work with Modiano’s text set on the other lake

Vertigo W G Sebald 1999

• Sebald is a literary travel writer, in Vertigo he takes along with him, his Kafka and his Stendhal.
• 4 features make Travel Writing literary:
• movement is in evidence,
• the past tenses are employed signalling a completed narrative and
• a first-person narrator guarantees the ethical dimension of eye-witness testimony.
• The fourth feature is the immanence of the story; all that the readers have is there, and this total testimony is evidence that the narrator lived to recount the tale (heroic).

LITERARY TOURISM

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• 1. Lake Garda, Italy

DEEP-MAP PROCESS

Desk research and literary reading build an emotional map of the new destination

• Existing stories discovered and analysed, including literary fiction, set in the destinations, in this case study: Lake Annecy, and Lake Garda
• This preliminary reading is to build the map of a new hexis; the armature on which the new travel story will be written (Mansfield, Shepherd & Wassler 2021)
• Geography, climate and geology of tourism destination also mapped

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Five named winds blow across Lake Garda – Scientific sources, too.�

The Balinot reaches top speeds of 20 m/s and causes higher waves than the Pelèr.

The Vinessa wind blows from the southeast from the Veneto shore towards the Lombardy side of the Lake, ideal for windsurfers.

The Pelèr Vent usually starts blowing just after 2am and stops around noon.

Info: Garda Dolomiti S.p.A. Tourism Promotion Office

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The travel writer-researcher plans a literary hexis around the destination

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Sebald’s hexis starts with Stendhal

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Limone sul Garda – Stendhal explores love for Mme Gherardi on the lake.

And earlier Goethe describes the winds 1786.

Sebald is forced to end his unfulfilled quest for Kafka here.

Lake Garda

Riva del Garda – Sebald sets a whole chapter on Kafka here exploring the theme of the realisation of love, Stendhal’s term is crystallisation.

A liquid becoming crystalline.

Kafka uses the winds of the lake to mobilise the ghostly ship of The Hunter Gracchus in his journal 6 April 1917.

METHODOLOGY – RESEARCHER AS DEVELOPER

How can the researcher today build a hexis as Sebald did?

• Replicating and applying methods to researcher’s own destinations for literary tourism development for DMO

Innovation in methodologies

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ZETTELKASTEN

I designed an MS OneNote template to store and share concepts and emerging plans for travel story

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OneNote Page template

Share questions with stakeholders

Journaling the Literary Geography

Quotations and ideas generated around a map of the town or, in this case of the locations around Lake Annecy used in Modiano’s novel, Villa Triste.

Creates a literary geography of destination and potential spaces to explore in more detail during fieldwork.

JOURNALING AS PROCESS METHODOLOGY

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Example – published in Scopus-listed journal + Travel Story

Fieldnotes from Fistral

They wake, they work, they wait,

Then they fall, Like the gulls call to the shore:

Ro an mor, ro an mor.

from ‘Seagift’

February 2020 had been the hardest month, not through cold, no, but from the warnings sent in by the Atlantic. Even as March came, wet slate still glistened on the terraces each morning. I had postponed my journey long enough. So, on Tuesday 10th March 2020 I headed west to Newquay on the Great Western Railway. My first stop was the change at Par

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GOOGLE PLAY BOOK STORE

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Make your own books, mainly text, not so good for lots of photographs.

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Use MS Word and then convert using Calibre (NEXT SLIDE)

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Open a Partner account with Google, free but costs a pound to set up bank details for direct payment to you.

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EBOOK MAKING .PUB FILES FROM WORD

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Calibre free download at https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows64

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Know your own daily word count = productivity

A serious hour of writing, without consulting any reference material gives me a word count of 340 words. Handwritten on A4 ruled, lie-flat notepad.

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But experiment with your hard-back A5 field notebook, too.

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Different from your “Performance”

WRITING PRODUCTIVITY & PERFORMANCE

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Excel Spreadsheet for Word-count Progress

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Word-count from wordcounter.ai

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This free web software lets you paste-in even a whole book to study the stats and word frequencies. This helps you see your writing productivity

References

Mansfield, C. (2021). 'Way-Tales: An Archaeological Topophonics for Emerging Tourist Spaces', in Piga, B., Siret, D., & Thibaud, J. (Eds.). (2021). Experiential Walks for Urban Design. Revealing, Representing, and Activating the Sensory Environment. London: Springer. pp 323-332. Chapter 19. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76694-8_19

Mansfield, C. Shepherd, D. & Wassler, P. (2021). 'Perry – Deep mapping and emotion in place-writing practice' in Scribano, A., Camarena Luhrs, M. & Cervio, A. (Eds) Cities, Capitalism and the Politics of Sensibilities. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 6, pp. 97 –114. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58035-3_6

Mansfield, C. and Potočnik Topler, J. (2021). 'Building the Ethnopôle: Eliciting and Sharing Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Tourism Development' Annals for Istrian and Mediterranean Studies - Annales Series Historia et Sociologia, 31(2), pp.197-208. Full text

Modiano, P. (2016). Villa Triste, London: Daunt.

Sebald, W. (1999) Vertigo, London: Penguin.

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