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Original Technorati articles tagged “travel writing”

• in Family
  Will YOU Answer the Call?
  Resolutions 2013
  by wesaidgotravel / on Jan 9, 2013
• in Travel
  Step Three to Travel Writing, Varying the Word Count
  If I am writing the story in my diary I might not worry about how many words I use.
  by Dev93 / on Nov 21, 2010
• in Travel
  Step Two to Travel Writing, Know the Travel Mags
  I am bombarded with numerous submissions that have nothing to do with my travel magazine.
  by Dev93 / on Oct 2, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “travel writing”

 

• Random, slightly coherent, and pictures.

  
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  How is this my second post for the month? Sure theres sleep deprivation. And traveling with tots. And visiting family. And finally finishing the edits that badly needed editing. And chasing around a toddler who is not as keen on potty training as you might wish him to be but who has met his match in this equally ...
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• Return to Wild Rose Country

  
  In Search of a Life Less Ordinary — Authority: 399
  When I was younger, the world was as big as my backyard. As I grew, the world grew with me. It became as big as my street, then as big as my neighbourhood, and soon as big as my home town. But it was never big enough. I needed more. I wanted to travel. At this time, I began to learn about Canada from my mother and ...
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• Red Nile: A Biography of the Worlds Greatest River by Robert Twigger – review

  
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  Robert Twigger offers a deeply entertaining, if Egypt-centric, history of the Nile The Nile is the longest and one of the most historically significant rivers in the world, sustaining diverse cultures, and is therefore a brilliant subject for a biography. From the headwaters in the Ruwenzori mountains and the ...
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• Winning the Best Job in the World Competition in Australia

  
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  I’m sure that in my lifetime, stranger things have happened. I’ve hung out with cannibals and I’ve slept in squats. I’ve been a beauty pageant award winner , a medical lab rat and a construction worker . I’ve used as a satellite phone to call charter planes in the jungles of Guyana and I’ve sipped ...
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• Traveling Like a Travel Writer

  
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  Everyone’s talking about “traveling like a local” these days. Travelers, bloggers, tour operators, souvenir clerks, industry types in pleated slacks – they all seem to say it’s the best way to get to know a place. Go local or go home, right? Well, not me. I’ve spent a dozen years doing research for ...
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• Australian Writers’ Centre- Travel Writing & A Novel Idea & Many Writing Courses

  
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  Having trouble viewing this? View in your browser.   Home Sydney Melbourne Online Courses Contact Us 13 June 2013 Sydney: (02) 9929 0088 In this issue TIP: Suspensive hyphens Sydney Meetup TIP: Substantive or substantial? 25 Most Daunting Reads Plan … Continue reading →
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• Wicked World releases its first digital issue

  
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  Vagablogging :: Rolf Potts Vagabonding Blog In the past few months, I have complained several times about the current status of travel writing and how it does not satisfy my needs. In this sense, it would have been too easy to just sit there and complain without actually doing something about it. And that’s ...
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• Book Review: In the Steps of the Master (1934)

  
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  In The Steps of the Master. H.V. Morton. 1934. 416 pages. I did enjoy this one. The sections I enjoyed, I almost loved. However, there were plenty of sections that I didnt fully enjoy. Overall, I liked the way he captured Palestine in the early 1930s. I enjoyed reading his rambles about his daily journeys, his ...
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• The World Is a Carpet

  
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  My #TripLit Pick for June:  The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village It is easy to become inured to a country like Afghanistan , to dismiss it as a place endlessly wracked by war, hopeless. It is easy to forget that it is full of human beings who do not fight on one side or the other ...
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• Travel Writers Converge on Saskatoon

  
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  Look out Toon Town! Saskatoon is hosting the annual Travel Media Association of Canada conference. More importantly, I get a chance to catch up with some of my froleagues. I can’t remember who coined this term, but it’s a combo of friend + colleague. Many of us have become more than Writers/PR/Tourism people ...
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• Why do you write?

  
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  Why do you write? (A forum question, found on the Internet, April 2013)   The fact that I felt compelled to write on this topic, when it turned up on a writing Forum, is part of the answer. I do recommend all wannabe writers should think about this question. The answer might be instructive in thinking about what ...
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• Learning From Twain

  
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  As I mentioned in my previous post , I’ve been reading Mark Twain’s “ Roughing It ” off and on for a few days now.  After a blisteringly hot 110 degrees on Saturday (that’s 43° C for my more logical metric friends), Sunday the temperature dropped into the 80′s (30′s) with a nice delta breeze kicking ...
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• Castles in Spain and Slovenia

  
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  I was traveling in Italy and Slovenia for the past ten days and didnt get a chance to announce that another guest post of mine is up at the Black Gate blog. Its the second in my series on Spanish castles . This time Im talking about the castle at Chinchón near Madrid. While I was in Slovenia I got to see plenty of ...
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• Open Call For Submissions: Poetry Written By Travelers

  
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  There are a number of books of travel poetry out there. Here we see a copy of Song of The Open Road: Poems of Travel & Adventure grazing with her offspring with a herd of bison who’ve taken to the open prairie where man, book and buffalo can still be free. While [...] The post Open Call For Submissions: ...
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• John Mullan on The Great Railway Bazaar – Guardian book club

  
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  Reading shapes Paul Therouxs experiences on his journey by train from Britain across Asia Paul Therouxs The Great Railway Bazaar is a carefully wrought literary artefact. It is a travelogue – the account of a journey by train from Britain across Asia – but, while it offers itself as a true record, it has a ...
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• The Last Man in Russia by Oliver Bullough – review

  
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  A journey through a drunken, decaying Russia in search of a priest who once tried to stem the flow of vodka That the Russians are "giuen much to drunkenesse" has been a cliche of western accounts of their country since the early modern era. As Richard Turbervile put it in 1568, "Drinke is their whole desire, the pot ...
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• Reliable source

  
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  Puggy’s Diary, 05.06.13 We enjoy making friends with the many interesting and unique creatures of this wonderful world.  So far we’ve met doll-fins , camkeys , ellyfants , a wail , an octopus , a tiger mao-mao and a yetee . Snort. Yesterday evening I asked Piggy “What amazing beasties live in ...
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• The Echoes of War Remain

  
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  Vagablogging :: Rolf Potts Vagabonding Blog My travels in northern France have always provided vivid reminders of the battle for Normandy, which raged from D-Day through the summer of 1944. Though partially healed by the decades, scars still remain in the rolling countryside, picturesque villages, and gentle ...
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• The Romance of Train Travel: Crossing Canada by Rail

  
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  At 10.31pm on a typically grey and moody evening in Vancouver, the Canadian pulls slowly away from the Pacific Union station. Its a low key affair, another passenger train departing for Canadas east. Champagne is served in the last of the trains 24 carriages, the Park car, as the windows darken with the onset of ...
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• Unexpected Blogging Break

  
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  Hi everyone, The end of the school year is a hectic time for teachers (as many of you know), and I fear I have neglected the blog for some time now. I am… Read More →
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