Category: Creative Travel Writing
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Changing the Big Picture: The Storytelling Mindset
Raise your hand if anyone’s ever told you to “focus on the big picture” 🙋‍♀️ This refrain usually comes from well-meaning friends at a time when our minds are scampering around like a squirrel and our anxiety kicks in and we probably need a massage because we’re just so stressed and CAN’T DECIDE WHAT ROUTE…
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Free Your Story: How Writing like a Sculptor Creates Your Best Work
When most people think of creative pursuits like writing, they think of it as making something out of nothing–inventing a tale through placing words on a page. And this is true. Like painters, writers are usually tasked with turning a blank canvas into something beautiful and wonderful and life-changing. Any writer can tell you the…
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Secrets of Storytelling: How to Write What You See
In today’s world—saturated with all sorts of pictures, TV shows, movies, and other visual media—it can be easy to forget the visual power of words. Long before any sort of visual media could be captured and replayed for our entertainment, people were telling stories to one another in an oral tradition that continues even up…
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3 Exercises to Improve Your Creative Travel Writing
When it comes to creative travel writing, it’s important to know some of the frameworks and storytelling techniques that will help you write a captivating story. But once you have the knowledge, it’s time to apply it. Here are three exercises that will help improve your creative travel writing! Exercise 1: Judgments vs. Observations This…
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How to Bring Your Experiences to Life Through Creative Travel Writing
So you’ve just had a life-changing travel experience. Then you get home, and you can’t figure out how to write it down. Everything you write sounds cheesy. It falls flat. So instead you cave and just write a list of things to do in XYZ or places to see in XYZ. But you know a…