Want to tell epic stories? Here are 6 travel writing tips from a published travel blogger to improve your travel writing and storytelling skills and help you be a better travel writer.

Beware: I have no filter. This is brutally honest advice from someone who's real freakin' tired of crap travel writing.

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6 tips:

1 00:57 Who cares?!
2 03:13 How? Why?
3 07:57 Pull me in
4 10:39 Get that sh*t out
5 11:44 All about dat dialogue
6 14:48 No judgement plz

Travel reading

A Year in Provence Peter Mayle
https://amzn.to/2x1uFHY
A British writer's account of moving to a village in southern France. Though it's not a wild adventure like you might expect from stereotypical travel writing, Mayle's dry humor and loving attention to eccentric details illustrate how even seemingly simple situations can be utterly absurd when well written.

The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters William Dalrymple
https://amzn.to/2xTJrk4
The first book I read by travel writer and historian William Dalrymple is still one of my favorites. This collection of essays from his (very extensive and indepth) travels throughout South Asia is the perfect example of effective use of dialogue in travel writing.

The Shooting Star Travel Blog Shivya Nath
https://theshootingstar.com/categor...
Shivya's blog is one of the few I actively read and cherish. This solo female traveler from India has mastered the art of transporting readers to places near and far through her words, and she always does so with immense respect and care for the people and places she travels to.

Zirrar
https://zirrar.com/blog/
Ali, who goes by the name Zirrar online, brings his Islamic perspective to the world of travel, especially to countries traditionally viewed through colonial lenses. He often blows me away with his ability to be simultaneously poetic and pointed as he introduces his readers and followers to places many of us have barely heard of, and he isn't afraid of a bit of controversy.

Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise David Foster Wallace
https://harpers.org/wpcontent/upload... (PDF)
An essay about a cruise?! Is that even travel writing?! Au contraire this is satirical travel writing at its finest. Though longwinded at times, DFW is darkly humorous, wholly skeptical, and does a fantastic job of illustrating a scene down to the tiniest, bizarre detail.

My travel writing

The Great Divide https://www.lostwithpurpose.com/great...
A meeting with a teenage girl, an uncomfortable confrontation with patriarchy in rural Pakistan.

Dirt cheap fares and endless stares https://www.lostwithpurpose.com/boat...
The trials and tribulations of riding ferries in Bangladesh.

Peril in the Pamir https://www.lostwithpurpose.com/pamir...
That time I nearly died in a remote part of Tajikistan.

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