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 t...
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