Travel Writing
Because I enjoy supporting and collaborating with other writers of travel memoir, I created a Facebook group for writers of the genre. We’ve grown to more than 80 members! If you’re writing a travel memoir, I hope you’ll join the group. (You can get a sense of who’s there and what we talk about by checking out these introductions and comments by some of the writers.)
Dogon Country, Mali
I’ve also created a Twitter list of members that helps us connect on Twitter.
Posts on travel writing and travel memoir
On the travel writing lifestyle:
- The myth of getting paid to travel (Great insight in the comments, too)
On getting published:
- A list of memoirs by women traveling alone, plus word counts for some of those books
- Querying your memoir: Manuscript or proposal?
- Why your proposal and query letter are better in first person
- How I got a literary agent to represent my book
On the art of writing travel memoir:
- Why you should reveal embarrassing details in memoir
- Finally, a use for rambling: memoir
- Memoir tip: Lose the play-by-play
- Learning by doing (or the importance of story arc)
- Talking about tense: Past vs. present
Interviews with authors of travel memoirs:
- Restless writing with Mary Morris, travel memoirist
- Another writer who wandered in Africa: Tanya Shaffer
- First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria = Hilarious
- Jumping on the Lunatic Express with Carl Hoffman
- Marianne Elliot turns peacekeeping into memoir
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