A fresh eye and busy feet make a travel writer: Learn to be a good hunter-gatherer and avoid the bland prose of a brochure.
This article offers a few things to consider to make good travel pieces. First and foremost it is important to travel light. A travel writer should pack a notebook—not a laptop, but the old-fashioned kind, with pages made of paper, preferably one small enough to fit in the pocket. Along with the not...
| Publicado en: | Writer (Kalmbach Publishing Co.) Vol. 121; no. 5; pp. 32 - 36 |
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Firecrown Media
May2008
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| Sumario: | This article offers a few things to consider to make good travel pieces. First and foremost it is important to travel light. A travel writer should pack a notebook—not a laptop, but the old-fashioned kind, with pages made of paper, preferably one small enough to fit in the pocket. Along with the notebook, one should bring an easy-to-operate digital camera to provide with a visual record of a particular sight. Photographs can become an integral part of an article. Travel writing gets interesting when there are characters the reader can care about. INSET: Making a scene makes for a more effective opening. |
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