TRICKS AND TIPS
The aim of all successful travel writing is to bring a place to life, transporting your readers there through your own experiences and encounters. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s easy though. Writing is one of the most mentally arduous activities out there, whether you’re doing it for pleasure or potential publication. A common pitfall is the idea that exciting travel automatically makes exciting reading. You could spend a month cruising the Zambezi or scouting for gorillas in Rwanda, but it won’t guarantee that you’ll write a riveting report on it. Travel writing is as much about delving into the wonderful world of words as it is about exploring landscapes and wildlife. You have to love the written word, be as fascinated by sentence construction as you are by wildebeest migrations, and be addicted to adjectives. How else to stop the sensory cocktail that courses through your mind as you traverse the bush from fizzling into lame clichés when you put pen to paper?