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Travel Writing: Explore the World & Publish Your Stories! by Udemy
Highest Rated Travel Writing Course ~ Ranked #4 on Buzzfeeds List of "23 of the Coolest Online Classes" on this website.
Course Highlights
- Learn how to write professional-quality travel tales that readers (and editors) will love.
- Master writing techniques that hook readers right away, maintain their interest throughout the story, and leave them feeling fulfilled at the end.
- Weave together the various elements that create a great travel tale — the setting, people, events, and unique emotions we encounter on the road.
- Understand the critical differences between travel journaling and writing travel tales for others to read.
- Travel with a writer's eye for stories.
- Introduce colorful characters into your travel tales, and understand the rules and common practices for handling quotes and writing dialogue.
- Discover easy and comfortable ways to connect with people when you travel (even if you're an introvert) -- because doing so leads you into richer, "story-worthy" experiences.
- Know what *not* to include in your stories, and pace your action to maintain reader interest throughout.
- Obliterate travel writing clichés to create original tales that are truly your own.
- Learn the two big mistakes that keep beginning freelance writers from getting published -- and discover easy ways to avoid those mistakes.
- Understand the different methods and best strategies for pitching stories to editors, even if you're just starting out.
- Publish your travel tales in blogs, newspapers, magazines, and books.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
4 Topics
Welcome!
How to Succeed in this Course
Travel Journaling vs. Writing For Publication (and a common mistake to avoid)
Free Workbook: Exercises to Accompany Each Section
4 Topics
Finding the Stories Only You Can Write
Stories in Your Pocket: Note-Taking Tips to Make Writing Easier
Supercharge Your Descriptions!
Streamlining Your Stories
4 Topics
Types of Tales (Travel storytelling is about more than just places!)
Beginnings: How to Write a Scintillating Lead
Middles: Keeping Your Readers Riveted
Endings: What's Your Point?
4 Topics
Who's Your Story?
Writing Dialogue
Storyfinding: How to Talk to Anyone and Have Richer Travel Adventures
How's It Going?
2 Topics
Cliché Busting: How to Write Truly Original Material
Tighten Up! - How to Make Your Tales Easy to Read
2 Topics
Starting a Travel Blog
How Will People Find Your Blog?
3 Topics
Q&A: Travel Writing Realities
Selling Your Stories to Newspapers and Magazines
Travel Books and Anthologies
3 Topics
Recapping Our Journey
How You Can Change the World as a Travel Writer
Onward!
Travel Writing: Explore the World & Publish Your Stories!
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