Travel Writing 101

Guest article by Gary Crucefix, founding editor of Fiction House, offers great advice and terrific links for travel writers!

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Travel Writer
by Gary Crucefix

I'm sure you've been told to "write what you know?" Travel writing is no different, you should try to recreate the world you travelled through as seen through your eyes rather than simply telling us what you saw.

It occurred to me that I could write a travel piece based on my working experience's looking after commercial buildings in London's, historic West End. Never having considered this style before, I rummaged about the Net for inspiration.

Resources

My quest commenced at Fiction House's resources. A couple of clicks brought me to the Travelwriters Page a useful refuge for the beginner travel writer - someone like me.

Durant Imboden's Travel Writing for Pleasure and Profit is listed. From the man resembling a sea dog comes an irresistible offering that will not only appeal to travel writers, but the inveterate plagiarist, too. In part one Durant summarises the market, in part two, he competently guides the reader through the subgenes of travel writing, Web based references, markets and practical examples.

Other writer's listed at Travelwriters are Tom Brosnahan, Lori Beattie and Phil Philcox.

Tom's article Is Guidebook Writing Worth the Money offers serious advice that will help you predict the success or failure of your project.

Lori, a director of Artistic Adventures a company dedicated to teaching the art of documenting travel, shares her travel writing know-how by offering 10 Terrific Travel Writing Tips.

Phil's article at Writer's Write, Travel Writing for Fun and Profit suggests "...only a few fortunate writers get to travel on expense-paid adventures and earn enough to wander around the globe and pay their bills while away from home. However, there are magazines out there that rarely use travel articles but might be interested in you as a 'travelling writer'...."

For a genuine inspirational approach to travel writing read In Search of Elusive Metaphors: The Art of Travel Writing by Mark Mardon.

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Gary Crucefix is founding editor of Fiction House, a guide to writing and getting published, designed to put you in touch with what's new and exciting in Fiction throughout the Internet. Every month we guarantee to supply you with more proven, practical and profitable leads than you'll know what to do with.

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