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Author O'Neil, L. Peat (Louisa Peat), 1949-

Title Travel writing / by L. Peat O'Neil
Edition First paperback edition
Published Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest ; London : Hi Marketing, 2000

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 MELB  808.06691 O5821/T  AVAILABLE
Description 242 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Getting Started -- Ch. 2. How a Travel Writer Travels -- Ch. 3. The Travel Journal -- Ch. 4. Structure and Pace -- Ch. 5. Style and Tone -- Ch. 6. Fact Checking and Research Resources -- Ch. 7. Travel Photos -- Ch. 8. Marketing Travel Articles -- Ch. 9. The Professional Travel Writer
Summary Tell us where you've been, and what you experienced there. Let us feel the ticket in your hand, see your ports of call, meet the people you've come to know. Put it all on paper. With the guidance of L. Peat O'Neil - who is on the staff of The Washington Post Magazine - you'll travel well and write engagingly, whether in journals for your own pleasure or articles for publication. Writing and marketing exercises follow pertinent chapters. Along with her instruction, O'Neil mixes in examples from travel articles. You'll taste the flavor of distant destinations even as you see how the writers sprinkled in that spice
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-223) and index
Subject Authorship.
Genre/Form Travel writing.
ISBN 0898796717
1582970009
Other Titles Subtitle on cover: See the world, sell the story