[This extracted article appears in full in Write Your Way Around the World] What makes travel writing worth reading in a world awash with content? We’ll look at the ingredients of great travel writing, examine a short excerpt from Bourdain, then pull out ideas you can apply in your own work. The Ingredients of Great …
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Around the World in 65 Years: A New BGTW Travel Writing Anthology by Bradt Guides Delighted to have a story included in this new BGTW Anthology of Travel Literature. I wrote a piece on travelling in Montserrat in the Caribbean, staying in a very special location, and exploring this other ‘Emerald Isle’ in the Caribbean. …
[This article was originally published in StoryCraft – for the full article, click here] I have always been drawn to place when I write — whether in fiction or travel writing. Place is never mere backdrop — it is a character in its own right, intrinsic to the storytelling. But what does that mean in …
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