Interviews
Posted: February 5, 2013 Contents: Chapter 1 | Tags: interview, savvy traveler, travel advice, travel interview, travel journalism, travel writer, travel writers exchange, travel writing, trisha miller Leave a comment »Chapter 1 coaches the travel journalist on the basics of journalistic practices including methods. Trisha Miller of the TravelWritersExchange offers her own advice.
Truly savvy travel writers know that there is another tool at their disposal, one that gives them more article angles, and the opportunity to both attract new readers and potentially add a more multi-media-rich experience to their personal brand toolbox.
I’m referring of course to interviews. The kind you conduct with various people you encounter on your travels.
Start by focusing on those whom you think your readers would find interesting, and branch out from there. It’s better to have more material than you can use, than to not have enough.
Participate! The best way to get the story
Posted: October 20, 2012 Contents: Chapter 1 | Tags: jennifer neves, participate, travel advice, travel journalism, travel writers exchange, travel writing Leave a comment »Jennifer Neves of Travel Writers Exchange.com offers advice to travelers on how to get the biggest bang for his or her traveling buck. The author, a professional travel writer, offers this tidbit as her most important way to get the biggest bang for your buck:
“Participate! If you are always observing, you may be able to write about an event in great detail. The colors, the smells, the action, but you will never be able to write about how it feels. Reflecting on what you have experienced is more powerful than a hundred pages of descriptions about the things you have not experienced – and more interesting to read. Your readers want to relate to you. They want to relate to the people in the places you describe.”
Akin to the advice offered in Chapter 1 Neves…
Beef up stories with interviews
Posted: October 20, 2012 Contents: Chapter 1 | Tags: interview, travel interview, travel journalism, travel writers exchange, travel writing, travelwritersexchange.com, trisha miller Leave a comment »Chapter 1 encourages the travel writer to talk to at least one local to add dimension and a unique perspective to his story. One way to do this is by conducting interviews. Trisha Miller of Travel-writers-exchange.com provides tips for conducting a great interview. Among her advice Miller lists:
- Always prepare in advance.
- Interview people in their own environment – So if it’s a chef, ask if he can be interviewed in the kitchen.
- Make an audio recording & take notes – have a back up recording
- The better the subject appears is the better the writer will appear.
Miller ensures the writer that following her advice will offer the writer interesting and entertaining content that readers yearn for.
Writing about home as a destination for others
Posted: September 26, 2012 Contents: Chapter 4 | Tags: backyard, karen gibson, stay home travel, travel journalism, travel writers exchange, travel writing Leave a comment »Chapter 4 offers this advice to journalists who wish to write about destinations but cannot afford either the cost or time it takes to travel: write about your home as a destination. But who wants to read about your boring old town, right? According to Karen Gibson of Travel Writers Exchange, many readers do.
One may think that their own backyard is dull and lacks excitement but, as Gibson points out, chances are people that live on a Caribbean island or in Paris probably don’t think their homes are exotic either. The author advises that travel writers do not have to stick to traditional travel publications as outlets for this work work. Rather, look to other publications about lifestyle, retirement, parenting, and food to diversify outlets and increase the chances to be published.
