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...
| Published in: | Writer (Kalmbach Publishing Co.) Vol. 121; no. 5; pp. 32 - 36 |
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Firecrown Media
May2008
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