I’ve recently finished writing the complete text of my first draft of the Suzhou travel guide I’ve been engaged to write.  It took me a while to get into a groove with it, but once I did, I spent long hours at a time thinking of nothing but Suzhou and how best to present it to first-time visitors to that wonderful ancient city.  Somewhere around the 25,000th word or so that I wrote, I began to wonder when Suzhou-overload would set in.  In the midst of editing and rewriting now, I think I have an answer — it won’t.  There is just so much to this city.  It is so layered, with so many facets to it, that it’s easy to sort of switch gears and start thinking about something else, and yet something still Suzhou-related.  It makes for a very fun writing experience.

This is the first full-length travel guide I’ve written.  I’m pretty happy with the information there so far, though the writing is a little weak in some parts at the moment (it’ll be fine before too much longer, though, I think).  Overall, I have to say that writing travel guides is really a lot of fun, if this experience is any indication.

Now wish me luck — I’d sure like to get a few more gigs like this!