Come check out my latest blog on my new website:
http://indelibleadventures.com/2016/12/30/naples-overlooked-and-underrated/
Friday, December 30, 2016
Naples - overlooked and underrated...
Come check out my latest blog on my new website:
http://indelibleadventures.com/2016/12/30/naples-overlooked-and-underrated/
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Rome - the eternal city!
Come visit my new website and home for my blog. This weeks blog is about my current adventure in Rome - the eternal city.
Enjoy!
TW
Enjoy!
TW
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Welcome to the new Indelible Adventures!
I'm so excited to introduce you to the new Indelible Adventures website. I've been working on this for about a month now and want to thank my team - Deepi, Olivia and Daniel and his team at NOW Creative, as you'll see they have done an magnificent job in making me look really good! Lol
This site is a one-stop shop for all things "Indelible" or "adventure", depending on how you feel on any given day. It incorporates a host of features and functions that used to reside in various links and sites not integrated into my old site.
Please feel free to explore my site at your leisure, and you'll notice for those who read my weekly blog it's integrated into my site (select Blog on the header navigation bar) to enjoy my weekly story.
Thank you for continuing to show your support for me and my journey with Indelible Adventures. I would love your thought, comments and feedback about my new site.
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
TW
p.s. My blog will now reside on my website
Friday, December 9, 2016
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On average my weekly blogs are about 1,000 words give or
take a couple of words…some weeks more, other weeks less but if we averaged it out its
somewhere in that vicinity. So let’s see
we have 340 blog posts, from four blog series:
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Kokoda Preparation (17)
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Disheveled Musings (41)
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Hanoi Posting – The serial (58) - current
·
Indelible Adventures (224) - current
Which brings us to a tidy 340,000 words written in my weekly
format, and doesn’t include the business and travel articles that I’ve also
written and published over the past five years. Most books have
between 250 – 300 words per page, which would bring me to 1,360 pages if they
were all in one book.
However, what’s most scary is that when you hold up against
a monumental piece of work like “War and Peace” just as an example, not that I’m in
anyway considering myself a literary giant in the realms of Leo Tolstoy or
anything but to give you some perspective in terms of sheer scale of what we’re
analyzing here, his masterpiece was 1,225 pages (English version). Although to be fair the original Russian
version was 1,440 pages.
Yes, I had one of those holy shit moments!
Now this got me thinking, cos whenever I think of “big
books” my mind automatically rushes to War and Peace. However, after a little digging I found that
the longest single story was entitled “Men of Goodwill” written by Jules Romain
and published between 1932 and 1946 with a whopping 2,070,000 words which to be
fair leaves my paltry 340,000 miserably wanting...
I know what you’re thinking, how on earth could you make a
book with 8,280 pages? Well, you don’t
actually, because as Jules would find out they couldn’t bind his chef-d'oeuvre
(great masterpiece) with so many pages, so to make it more manageable the publishers turned it
into a 27 books over 14 volumes, which is still a 307 page book if you do the
average words per page.
Staggering is right! Although
to be fair to Jules it was its life’s work so you have to admire his
stick-to-it-iv-ness over 14 solid years to plough through his story of French
life from 1908 to 1933.
Again, if you do the math (cos you know I did) its only
about 405 words per day, although it is everyday for 14 straight years… Apparently the one downfall of Jules work is
that there is no central figure, protagonist or family in this rambling story but rather a huge cast of characters with each volume’s stories delving into
a segment of French society during that period - riveting stuff!
Interestingly, Jules was not just a one-book wonder…no, far
from it! In fact he was a prolific
writer and poet and published many works over his lifetime.
Aren’t analytics great?
For starters without me getting under the covers of my short literary
(okay, maybe not exactly literary but you know what I mean) :-)
career you wouldn’t have learned about the longest book ever published, nor the
interesting facts behind War and Peace. Ha!
The thing that strikes me most about writing is that I can
sit and write for hours and never have a problem coming up with things to write
about. I suppose its one of the thing
that Jules and I do share is a love of the written word, you might also throw
in there the cast of characters and topics I've covered.
Seriously the words just flow like water from a tap when I sit down to write – but
you already knew that. :-)
The most difficult thing about writing is capturing your
audience’s attention week in and week out, especially given the gazillion other
bloggers, storytellers and writers who ply their trade on the Internet…
Certainly there is no shortage of great writers out there
covering every topic known to man and to be honest I’m not sure if helps me or
hurts my chances of getting repeat readers given the range of topics I’ve
covered over the years - life with Zach and Sami, my travel adventures peppered
with stories of growing up in Australia.
As I move to my new website in the coming weeks, I’ll also be transitioning to hosting
my blogs rather than using this site. The tricky part is to work out what to do with
all of my work created to date – I already have a plan to capture it and store
it and perhaps even republish some of the most popular stories from over the
past five years. It’s important to
ensure that I continue to engage my existing readers and engage new ones, especially considering
the 250,000 that have read them so far.
Makes you wonder if Leo or Jules ever had to worry about
building their “brand” like we do today?
I’m sure in their day they had their literary reputations to consider so
had a different type of pressure to withstand.
What I’ve come to realize is that the underlying human experience hasn’t
really changed much over the centuries.
Greater knowledge and enabling technologies have provided us
a faster paced world in which we can arguably do anything and everything our
hearts desire – including me become a writer...
Yes, I’m sure they’d be turning in their graves if they only
knew!
Until next week....
Until next week....
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“Hanoi Posting” A series of fictional micro-stories by Terence Wallis
Come visit "Hanoi Posting" at its new home!
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Down to the last few days of this years 30 for 30 photo essay from my unpublished archives, I hope you've been enjoying these as much as I have curating them for you.
Enjoy!
TW
Down to the last few days of this years 30 for 30 photo essay from my unpublished archives, I hope you've been enjoying these as much as I have curating them for you.
Enjoy!
TW
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| Stresa - ferry times on Lago Maggiore |
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| Bells Beach - one of the most famous surf beaches in the world and host to last years World Championship on Australia's south coast |
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| Ernest Hemingway's house in Key West, Florida - cool sculpture |
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| Good old Aussie magpie! |
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| You never know what you're going to find by the beach Point Lonsdale, Australia |
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| A beautiful rose bouquet at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
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| The Speak easy's mirror |
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| Inner city laundromat |
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| Toronto's Flatiron building - iconic to say the least |
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| Honest Ed's last days....set to be demolished in Jan/Feb 2017. It's been such a landmark in Toronto for more than 70 years. So sad to see it go |
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| Tis' the season on the Danforth - in Toronto's east end my neighborhood! |
Friday, December 2, 2016
Redefined...
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Yeah, the
exterior can be deceiving.
I suppose
for the most part you only see what I want you to see – the
part that is successful and has the world at his feet. However, what you don’t see are the countless
hours each day and night, with the extremely early mornings where I need to fit
in a ton of tasks and activities before my day gets going. Clearly boundless energy and a deep desire to be successful are essential.
Trust me I
couldn’t be more content! These aren’t
meant as complaints but the reality of every business owner who strives to be
the best at what they do.
As a single
parent I know I’m fortunate, as not only do I have two fabulous kids who are
bright, well mannered and easy to get along with, whom some might say is a bit
of an anomaly considering they’re teens, but along with that I’ve have created a
lifestyle that you could only dream about.
Do I have
lots of money…no, do I live in a large fancy house or mansion…no, or have lots
of toys (okay to be honest I have a really nice car – yes, my guilty pleasure) but
other than that not so much.
Creating a business model where I can do this has been fun and now I'm getting to live the life I've always wanted - full of travel and doing the things I'm passionate about...sounds like contentment. Isn't that all what we strive for?
I guess my priorities since the end of my marriage have been shaped by my deep desire and yearning to create life where I can travel, with or without my kids a few times per year. The second part is to have flexibility in my life so that I can do this seemingly whenever I choose – yes, on my terms.
A great example of this is the numerous trips I’ve taken this year. When you add them up it comes to 12 weeks of travel this year alone if you include my upcoming trip to Italy over Christmas, and already have a slew of trips planned for 2017. Some of these are fully baked and paid for, others semi planned but in the coming months they will get finalized. A pick list:
I guess my priorities since the end of my marriage have been shaped by my deep desire and yearning to create life where I can travel, with or without my kids a few times per year. The second part is to have flexibility in my life so that I can do this seemingly whenever I choose – yes, on my terms.
A great example of this is the numerous trips I’ve taken this year. When you add them up it comes to 12 weeks of travel this year alone if you include my upcoming trip to Italy over Christmas, and already have a slew of trips planned for 2017. Some of these are fully baked and paid for, others semi planned but in the coming months they will get finalized. A pick list:
· January – Italy
· February – New York City (with Sami to make up for not being able to come to Boston)
· March - Iceland (March break with
the kids)
· May - California
· July – Israel (with Zach to watch
Sami compete at the International Maccabiah Games)
· August – Germany, Czech Republic,
Hungary (2 weeks backpacking with Zach)
· September – Western Canada / North East US (depending on Craig & Audrey's visit)
· October – Morocco
My annual
business planning goes hand in hand with my travel and so when I’m thinking
about what I want my business to achieve next year I’m also thinking about the
places I want to go and explore.
The focus
is to continue to capture via the lens and the pen the essence of my travel,
primarily so that I can continue to build out my portfolio of photography but
also capture these adventures in future stories, blogs and articles that I want
to write and publish.
What I’m
really excited about is my new website. Firstly, I want to create a one-stop
shop for all my photography, blogs including a store where you’ll be able to
buy with the click of a button some of my hi-res photos, books etc. Perhaps over time expand my offerings to provide other essential travel items and fun stuff. Time will tell I guess :-)
In addition, it will be a place for me to share my new travel videos that I plan to pilot while I’m in Italy and also give you options in terms of booking me for speaking engagements, executive coaching and consulting.
Yes, its going to be awesome! Even if my web design company says so, no seriously I've been working with the team on the wire frames and developing content and getting closer with each week.
As well, I've even engaged a couple of part timers who will be focusing on developing and managing my social media campaigns and online presence via other channels, so all in all its going to be a fantastic start to 2017.
Stay tuned for more tidbits as we get closer to launch.
Ciao ciao!
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“Hanoi Posting” A series of fictional micro-stories by Terence Wallis
Come visit "Hanoi Posting" at its new home!
“Hanoi Posting” A series of fictional micro-stories by Terence Wallis
Come visit "Hanoi Posting" at its new home!
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I hope you're enjoying this years 30 for 30 photo essay running Nov 15 to Dec 15th, these are photos from my archive that will not quite make it into the top 30 but are close.
Enjoy!
TW
I hope you're enjoying this years 30 for 30 photo essay running Nov 15 to Dec 15th, these are photos from my archive that will not quite make it into the top 30 but are close.
Enjoy!
TW
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| The Atrium on Bay - from the ground up...cool view |
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| Hong Kong Island from Victoria Peak |
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| Toronto streetcar or tram on the Queen Street route |
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| Toronto's abandoned waterfront in the east end, soon to be redeveloped |
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| The chalet at the top of the Grouse Grind in Vancouver, BC |
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| San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts in all its splendor - cool night shot! |
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| Soldiers & Sailors monument with christmas lights in Indianapolis |
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| The Ponte Vecchio in Firenze spanning the Arno river, as it has for centuries |
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