Jay Artale

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Originally from the flatlands and big skies of rural Norfolk in eastern England, Jay Artale is a British Expat currently living in Los Angeles.

For the last couple of decades Jay has juggled her day job as a project manager with her passions for writing, photography and international travel.

In 2008, Jay bought a holiday home on the trendy Bodrum Peninsula along Turkey’s beautiful Aegean coast. Despite its popularity with Turkish and international visitors, and a destination of choice for thousands of expatriates looking for their place in the sun, well-researched and comprehensive guides to the Peninsula were thin on the ground.

Jay decided to plug this gap and enthusiastically set about capturing the local area in words and pictures. In 2
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Jay Artale I discovered Freewriting (a close cousin of speed writing) ... basically the concept is to write as fast as you can so that you quiet your inner criti…moreI discovered Freewriting (a close cousin of speed writing) ... basically the concept is to write as fast as you can so that you quiet your inner critic, and just get words on a page. Being a writing is really about writing, it's about editing. Just get your crappy first draft onto the page, and then edit it, and continue to edit and polish, and tweak it until it's good.

I love Freewriting so much, and believe in it as a concept, so I ended up writing my Freewriting for Travel Writer's Book to help other travel bloggers and travel writers to overcome writer's block.(less)
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