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.)

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

• Writing for twenty-seven readers

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