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The truth about travel writing


Truths in Travel Writing - Lisa Gerard-Sharp

Does some travel journalism have to be so soulless? Veteran travel writer Jan Morris believes otherwise: “I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be ...

What no one ever tells you about being a travel writer

“It can be a very long time between going on a trip and when the story is published, and consequently, when you are paid,” says Briar. “Many travel writers will ...

Exposing The 5 Top Travel Writing Myths - The Writers College

Travel writing: The cold hard truths. A writer usually pitches an article once the trip has been completed, so costs are covered entirely by the writer. The ...

A (Partial) Defense of Travel Writing - The Hedgehog Review

Travel writers labor under the burden of all the usual general objections to travel (one of the more notable: a wasteful, high-energy pastime in a carbon- ...

Truth in Travel Writing: A Conversation With Tim Hannigan

The conversation found us speaking about why “craft” can sometimes trump “truth,” the conscious and unconscious decisions we make with each ...

A short history of the dangers of travel writing

In Australia, and in English-language travel writing more generally, a travelogue is about the traveller and their experience – the ways in ...

“Travelandia” – Never Trust a Travel Writer - Lisa Gerard-Sharp

It is a truth universally acknowledged that travel-writing bears only a tenuous relationship with the truth. Lisa Gerard-Sharp ponders the moral matrix ...

Travel Writing: The Good, the Bad, and the Honest - Memoirs of Acacia

Travel Writing: The Good, the Bad, and the Honest ... Five years ago I started my travel blog, and four years ago the world ended and I realized that I wanted to ...

Busting 6 Myths About Travel Writing

Busting 6 Myths About Travel Writing · Myth #1: You Must Have Journalism Degree · Myth #2: Magazines Employ Their Own Staff of Writers · Myth #3 You Must Travel to ...

Six Surprising Travel Writing Myths

Have you ever read sales copy about travel writing that says something like this: “You don't need a mastery of the English language to become a travel writer” ...

The Struggle Is Real -- The Reality of Travel Writing | HuffPost Life

I'm a rare breed within my industry. Most travel writers I know have a cushy staff position with benefits, do it part-time for fun, ...

Travel Writing: Why I Bother - The New York Times

The travel book had always seemed to me a somewhat insufficient form. Why write about that country? What's the occasion? What's the point? So often such ...

The truth about travel writing - PLUS: 6 surprising hacks

6 top tips if you want to be a successful travel writer, plus the reality of making a travel writing career.

The truth about being a travel writer | Condé Nast Traveller India

Travel writers are the people we love to hate, but secretly want to be. And for good reason, given that they're constantly jetting off to exotic places.

The Truth About Travel Writing — As Inspired By Bill Bryson

Travel writing makes you more engaged with your surroundings. If you are curious, it truly broadens the mind.

The Truth Behind Travel Writing: A Tell-All

You often write about places you don't go ... Round-ups—or a bulleted list of 10 or so destinations that fall under one theme—translate to ...

The Seven Myths of Being a Travel Writer | Travel Writing

Myth #1: Travel writers make enough money to live on ... Some people make a good living as a travel writer. With the growth of blogs that reach ...

Travel writing and the blurry line between fact and fiction

The Guardian has some solid examples of travel writers' tendency to, well, exaggerate. Everything from sailors' tales of sea monsters, to Marco ...

Why Is There No Travel Writing? - by Sam Kahn - Inner Life - Substack

The cultural theory is that it's not worth it as an investment because there's no appetite for it. ... Nobody thinks they're going to get that now ...

What You Need - and Don't Need - to Be a Travel Writer

It's also about seeing the world in a new way. Travel writing demands you pay greater attention to where you are than you might if you were just passing through ...