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Methods for Travel Writers

This methods book is for travel writers and bloggers who are developing their professional and creative practice with key practical methods. Alongside developing your growth and confidence as a literary travel writer it provides an approach that forms the framework for a longer project. For your career, when writing commissions are sought, the book will help you to professionalise your practice so that each new project that you approach is productive from an earlier stage.



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