Participate! The best way to get the story
Posted: October 20, 2012 Contents: Chapter 1 | Tags: jennifer neves, participate, travel advice, travel journalism, travel writers exchange, travel writing Leave a comment »Jennifer Neves of Travel Writers Exchange.com offers advice to travelers on how to get the biggest bang for his or her traveling buck. The author, a professional travel writer, offers this tidbit as her most important way to get the biggest bang for your buck:
“Participate! If you are always observing, you may be able to write about an event in great detail. The colors, the smells, the action, but you will never be able to write about how it feels. Reflecting on what you have experienced is more powerful than a hundred pages of descriptions about the things you have not experienced – and more interesting to read. Your readers want to relate to you. They want to relate to the people in the places you describe.”
Akin to the advice offered in Chapter 1 Neves…
Get out there and make friends
Posted: October 3, 2012 Contents: Resources | Tags: aaron mashburn, frommers, frommers.com, locals, madeline reddington, Making friends model, travel advice, travel journalism, travel writing, traveling abroad Leave a comment »Building on Aaron Marshburn’s “Making Friends Model,” in Resources, Madeline Reddington in frommers.com, offers five ways to connect to locals while traveling. Reddington explains,
Most travelers realize in short order that our experiences abroad — and in other unfamiliar territories — are greatly enhanced by spending time with those who know it best, the locals. Whether you stay at their home, spend a weekend with them, or even chat over a beer, you’ll be opening yourself to a more intimate and genuine experience of your destination.
Reddington also recommends Triptrotting.com where travelers can connect with like-minded locals for offline meet ups.
The advice builds on the idea: Who knows the destination better than local residents?
Pico Iyer – Why travelers travel
Posted: October 3, 2012 Contents: Chapter 1 | Tags: pico iyer, travel advice, travel journalism, travel writing, why we travel, world hum, worldhum.com Leave a comment »Travel writer and journalist Pico Iyer offers this tidbit to WorldHum.com on why individuals travel:
Travel… guides us toward a better balance of wisdom and compassion—of seeing the world clearly, and yet feeling it truly. For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring; while feeling without seeing can be blind. Yet for me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.
