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Methods for Travel Writers

In this pocket-sized paperback, Methods for Travel Writers I set out the design methods for you to develop your travel stories and your own literary style for your blog posts or longer travel stories. The reason I propose these D-Methods is to provide experiments to try with your pieces of writing, drawn from travel literature and creative non-fiction.




D-Methods for Destinations 

I number each method but prefix them with the letter D, so that you can refer to each one and as a reminder that each is a design decision as you develop your writing on the destination that you are researching. For example, I propose the use of the first person, the I-narrator to draw attention to your own identity as the investigative travel writer exploring the location.  The literary travel writer, W G Sebald draws attention to his notebook and journaling in this way so that his readers can imagine him there,  'And so I found myself, hardly knowing how I came there, in the entrance hall of the Musée Fesch, with notebook and pencil and a ticket in my hand.' (Sebald 2005, 4). Using I or we to tell your story, has an ethical dimension, too, often holding you to account for what you have discovered about the place or yourself.


If you are working independently then you can ask friends or editors to see if your experiment worked with the D-Method you chose to implement in the travel story. If you are studying to be a travel writer and content author at university then you can ask your lecturer to assess the effectiveness of each D-method you apply in your piece. This methods book can be used by travel writers and bloggers who are studying to develop their professional and creative practice at university. It is aimed at final year undergraduates and early Masters level postgraduates. Much of the work in developing this book has been drawn from my teaching and research supervision on Masters Programmes for travel writers at universities in Britain.  Alongside developing your growth and confidence as a literary travel writer it provides an approach that forms the framework for a research project suitable for a postgraduate thesis. 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.

Available as Kindle or A6 Pocket Paperback Book 

Methods for Travel Writers in available as an eBook on all good ebook and Kindle channels. In the printed format, pictured above, it is available from Amazon with the ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BKC9ZVHN or follow this link to the UK store for Amazon



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