Our panel of experts share their insights on writing engaging travel stories
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These are their top 10 tips on how to find your story, how to plan your trip, and how to structure your piece to help you enhance your travel writing.Researching a destination before you travel is crucial to finding an interesting and topical story. Our panel discussed social media as a powerful tool when it comes to connecting with local people and finding a focus for your piece.
Using your personal connections to the story will also help you sell it. “You might have a personal connection with that country, or you speak the language or something that just gives you the edge over someone else’s pitch,” said Emma. A recurring piece of advice from our experts was to keep focusing on the personal aspects of the trip – how you felt, the memories of the place and what you found interesting and important. You want to transport the reader to the destination and tell them a good story about it.On a trip, it is important to keep track of the notes you make, as well as keeping them safe.
Our experts agreed that spontaneous conversations with strangers are often the key to building interesting stories and can help make your piece shine. “If you can get free time on a trip, you can build more colour into the piece. Some of the most colourful interviewees can be the people you just bumped into,” advised Jamie Lafferty, a freelance writer and photographer.
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