/lit/ - Literature

>>6239163
Here is a photo I took while hiking Coyote Gulch.

I always liked to write, but I tend to have a very short attention span for it. I went on a very long trek (4 months /out/doors) with a couple of friends through the deserts and canyonlands of southern UT & northern AZ, where I started to keep a journal of everything we did.
At first it was just something for personal entertainment and to help me remember our trip, but eventually as I began to look back on the pages, I began to realize how my thinking had changed over the course of our journey, and it soon became something very reflective, introspective, and spiritual to me.
I've finally finished typing up the 1,000 or so handwritten pages, and plan on publishing it along with the photographs I took while out in the wilderness. It's about how a group of 5 people change while isolated from the rest of society, and how I can apply the things I learned out there to my life back in the real world. It also grapples with the idea of wonderment at the natural world. I wrote 30 pages about this arch we passed under, what it evokes, and what that implies about myself and the other people I was with.


I've always been fond of writing by people like Muir,Thorau, Jacob Hamblin, and Robert Frost, but I'm not trying to emulate them or copy their writing. I want this to be my own thing.