Take your travel writing to the next level.
Five essential tips from the Travel Narrative classes of our Master in Travel Journalism, to help you write travel stories that readers can see, smell and feel.
- Five practical techniques used by professional travel writers
- A printable Hero’s Journey template to map your own story
- Examples and exercises you can apply to your next piece
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Five tips to write travel stories people remember
Each tip is a short lesson taken from the way we teach travel narrative at STJ: one idea, clear examples and techniques you can use straight away.
The art of vivid description
Become your reader’s five senses. How to recreate the smells, sounds, flavours and colours of a place with precise, evocative words.
The Hero’s Journey on the road
Apply Joseph Campbell’s narrative structure to your trips, with a printable template to identify the stages of your own story.
The companion as counterpoint
Travelling alone or with company? How a travel partner can add humour, new perspectives and bolder opinions to your story.
How to add humour
Setbacks, the absurd, the rule of three, irony and unexpected characters: techniques to make readers smile with you.
The ending is what matters
Close with surprise and inevitability, resolve your plots and leave the reader with a lasting emotion.
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These tips are a small sample of the Travel Narrative classes inside the Master in Travel Journalism.
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