This past summer, I served a historian’s purpose in San Jose, Costa Rica for a team of volunteers working on a restoration project. I captured the adventure of the excursion through blog and photography. With quick and easy access to the internet, daily blogs made simple, friends and family of the team kept up with the progress and intentions of the trip in real time.

One specialized purpose of writing is to communicate in such a way that allows people to participate vicariously through others. In this way, family, friends and communities can all share in travel and experience. Writing for the purpose of capturing and preserving a story is an essential part of preservation. A culture or people’s history becomes a beacon of revelation for the future. It is important to capture moments of expression, emotional reactions, creative discoveries and more. As society moves, change happens. Writers publish stories. Publications record responses. Creative arts express descriptions of societal development. All create connectivity for human kind through barriers of time and space.

The writer is historian; preserving identity, spreading ideology and unique perspectives. One thing a writer should consider when writing as historian is the writer’s own, self motivated, perspective. Of course, a person’s perspective will pervade paradigm. This comes across in writing, whatever the genre; whether exploring fiction or nonfiction, attempting to preserve accuracies, or creating metaphoric comparisons. Being aware of self motivation and presence in your writing will enhance your ability to communicate clearly. This especially rings true when a writer seeks to communicate a specific purpose or demonstration.

Discovery through travel and writing a cultural perspective in light of self awareness is a combination of great significance. A writer must pursue well being in their own individual passions and pursue self interest in order to write effectively and creatively.