Travel writing isn’t writing about your family’s vacation.
It isn’t writing about what you liked or didn’t like about your last trip. And
it definitely isn’t about writing about destinations so that you can travel for
free.
Travel writing is writing
about places, persons, and things in other places--also writing about how to
travel, when to travel, and advice on traveling–all with the reader in mind.
It’s about relaying your travel experiences to others so that they may emulate
them or at the very least not make the same mistakes you did. And it’s writing
about things in your own back yard that are exotic to everyone else---a local
farmer's market, historic site, restaurant, museum.
To be a good travel writer,
you need to be ON all the time, not just when you want to. When you’re on
vacation, you do what you want when you want. You’re mind focuses on the place
you’re visiting only when it wants to. But to interpret a destination for your
readers, you have to look for new angles on the same old things while at the
same time sharing your pleasure with your readers.
But before we go further into
travel writing, we need to take a look at the readers that will devour what you
say about a place. There are three parts to the communication process–the
sender (the writer), the receiver (the reader), and the message. When you were
in school, you subconsciously learned that the writer was the most important
part of the process because in academic writing, that’s the case. But in
general writing, including travel writing, the reader is the most important
part of the process. If a writer doesn’t think about the reader before writing,
the reader most likely won’t be interested or might possibly not understand
what the writer is saying.
How did travel writing begin?
Travel has a long history. People have always traveled--from ancient caravansaries to modern resorts. But travel writing began, more or less, during Elizabethan times. Shakepeare got much of the background material for his plays, such as the "Merchant of Venice" and "Romeo and Juliet" from Elizabethan travel guides to Italy.
Travel has a long history. People have always traveled--from ancient caravansaries to modern resorts. But travel writing began, more or less, during Elizabethan times. Shakepeare got much of the background material for his plays, such as the "Merchant of Venice" and "Romeo and Juliet" from Elizabethan travel guides to Italy.
Why is it needed?
Travel writing celebrates the differences in manners and customs around the world. It helps the reader to understand other people and places. And it helps readers plan their own trips and avoid costly mistakes while traveling. But, most of all, it lets readers travel to far-off destinations that they may never see.
Travel writing celebrates the differences in manners and customs around the world. It helps the reader to understand other people and places. And it helps readers plan their own trips and avoid costly mistakes while traveling. But, most of all, it lets readers travel to far-off destinations that they may never see.
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