Transform Your Travels Into Meaningful Memoir
I spent two weeks in Chiang Mai, Thailand visiting my sister and her family. My mother and aunt came too, and it was their first time in Thailand. As you can imagine, there was a lot going on. But were there any stories with a clear and compelling beginning, middle and end? Or was it […]
Think back to when you first learned to read. What was it like? Back then, you read word by word. You focused on what each word or phrase was communicating. You read closely. Today we are all practiced readers. We have become too familiar with skimming, skipping words, daydreaming. Yet writers’ words teach us how […]
Travel memoir writing isn’t what you typically read in the Travel section of a newspaper, or in many glossy magazines. When you’re writing travel memoir, you aren’t compelled to lavish superlatives upon a beach resort or trendy city. You don’t have to recommend the restaurants where you ate, the museums you visited or the hotel […]
I’ve learned to jumpstart my writing through inventing interesting structures for my travel memoir stories. Innovative ways to organise the elements of my travel essay can help me locate where my essay begins, and it can even help me decide the entire arc of the story I’m going to tell. Inventing different ways to structure […]
Travel can inspire some of our greatest ideas for writing. By spending time somewhere new, our minds can begin to shift, and we can gain an entirely new perspective on our lives. Observing how others live while on a journey somewhere new is an ideal way to understand oneself better, and can provide poignant subject matter […]