Freewriting for Travel Writers: How to use a creative freewriting technique to improve your travel writing

Freewriting for Travel Writers: How to use a creative freewriting technique to improve your travel writing

by Jay a Artale
Freewriting for Travel Writers: How to use a creative freewriting technique to improve your travel writing

Freewriting for Travel Writers: How to use a creative freewriting technique to improve your travel writing

by Jay a Artale

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Overview

As a travel writer you can't rest on your laurels - you need to craft your words to inspire, entertain, inform and educate your audience. It doesn't matter whether your readers are planning a trip or are armchair travellers, you owe it to them to use freewriting take your travel writing from one-dimensional to engaging.

Although freewriting is used extensively by fiction writers, it's also an extremely useful tool for nonfiction writers.

No matter what type of writer you are, sometimes you're going to to struggle with how to start a new chapter of your book, or get in the right head-space to write your next blog article.

Freewriting helps you brush away the lateral thinking cobwebs and forces your mind to rely more heavily on your creative side.

Why I use free writing as a pre-writing technique:

Writing travel guides and nonfiction books is a very analytical exercise. There's lots of research and fact-checking to be done, and then there's the structural organization of the content. All of these activities rely on lateral thinking. But your words also need to leap off the page to connect with your audience. In order to achieve this, you need to create content that evokes an emotional reaction in your reader.

It is all too easy to get stuck in an educational or informational rut when writing nonfiction, but as soon as you tap into the inspirational side of a topic, you're creating content that is no longer one-dimensional.

I use free writing in a variety of different scenarios to achieve different end results, and this book explains the basics of free writing, and how you can use this popular writing technique to improve your travel writing.

This book introduces you to the concept and approach for freewriting, so that you can put it into practice straight away. Learn when to use it and how to overcome the challenges travel writers face. I show how you can create your own travel writing prompts, but have also included a list of 100 travel writing prompts to inspire your next freewriting session.

Just because you write nonfiction, doesn't mean you can't write creatively. So make today the day you invest in your writing career to improve your writing and increase your ability to reach more readers.

When you use freewriting to tap into your creative side you'll be better equipped to submit your travel articles to travel industry big-hitters like Lonely Planet, DK Guides, Matador Network, and Rough Guides. Did you know that Lonely Planet has recently launched a new travel magazine? Freewrite your way into magazines, or in featured spots on travel websites.

In this book I show you how to:

  1. Power through writer's block

  2. Get out of a travel writing rut

  3. Solve a writing problem

  4. Leverage for productive procrastination
  5. 
Overcome boredom

  6. Use freewriting as a confidence booster

  7. Create a fun distraction


Then I walk you through your seven-point plan for achieving a successful freewriting session:

  1. Create you ideal writing conditions

  2. Set a deadline

  3. Determine your freewriting goal

  4. Choose your freewriting prompt

  5. Relax your conscious mind

  6. Don't stop - keep moving

  7. Don't edit or censor yourself


I walk you through a freewriting example I set myself: "How do I create a niche approach for writing about Paris?", and then provide you with 100 freewriting travel prompts to get your creative juices flowing.

By the end of the book you'll have all the writing tips you need to increase the quality of your travel writing.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781944370015
Publisher: Birds of a Feather Press
Publication date: 06/01/2017
Pages: 100
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

Originally from the flatlands and big skies of rural Norfolk in eastern England, Jay Artale is a British Expat currently living in Los Angeles. For the last couple of decades Jay has juggled her day job as a project manager with her passions for writing, photography and international travel.

In 2008, Jay bought a holiday home on the trendy Bodrum Peninsula along Turkey's beautiful Aegean coast. Despite its popularity with Turkish and international visitors, and a destination of choice for thousands of expatriates looking for their place in the sun, well-researched and comprehensive guides to the Peninsula were thin on the ground. Jay decided to plug this gap and enthusiastically set about capturing the local area in words and pictures.

In 2010, Jay launched the her BodrumPeninsulaTravelGuide.com website to share her knowledge and experiences with a wider audience. What began life as random facts and observations, hand-written in little note books, has grown into a well-respected and popular travel site.

In 2012, Jay began publishing free location-specific Quick Reference Travel Guides for the area. A full-blown guide seemed to be the next logical step. "The Bodrum Peninsula Travel Guide: Turkey's Aegean Gem" was published, following shortly by "The Gumusluk Travel Guide: Bodrum's Silver Lining"

As an avid blogger and travel writer Jay is always looking for ways to improve and refine her travel writing and is working on a series of travel writing guides to help other writers.

Table of Contents

PART ONE

INTRODUCTION TO FREEWRITING

1. What is Freewriting? 3

2. Freewriting Pioneers 7

3. Can Nonfiction Writers use Freewriting? 11

4. Your Pyramid of Thoughts 15

5. When to use Freewriting 19

6. Seven Travel Writing Challenges 21

PART TWO

FREEWRITING, STEP-BY-STEP

1. Step 1: Create your ideal writing conditions 31

2. Step 2: Set a Deadline 33

3. Step 3: Determine your freewriting goal 37

4. Step 4: Choose your writing prompt 39

5. Step 5: Relax your Conscious Mind 43

6. Step 6: Don’t Stop - Keep Moving 47

7. Step 7: Don’t Edit or Censor Yourself 49

8. Recycle your freewriting 51

PART THREE

MY FREEWRITING EXAMPLE

1. Freewriting Session #1 55

2. Session #1 Evaluation 59

3. Freewriting Session #2 63

4. Article Ideas from my Session 67

Summary 71

PART FOUR

RESOURCES

1. 100 Freewriting Prompts for Travel Writers 77

2. Top 3 Travel Writing Tips 83

3. Freewriting Resource List 85

4.Writing Resource List 87

Epilogue 91

About the Author 93

Also by Jay Artale 97

Your Opinion Counts 101

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