Of all the stories I've written over the years, I've gotten the most spirited reader response from two of my more experimental travel tales — Storming «The Beach», which was a gonzo - philosophical look at a Leonardo DiCaprio movie that was being filmed in Thailand, and The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra, a second - person - voice meta - satire
about generic travel writing.
Not exact matches
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About Blog Ladyironchef, writes about his personal experiences from his daily life, dishing out honest reviews about food and dining places, countries and cities that he travels to and visits, and generic lifestyle prod
About Blog Ladyironchef, writes
about his personal experiences from his daily life, dishing out honest reviews about food and dining places, countries and cities that he travels to and visits, and generic lifestyle prod
about his personal experiences from his daily life, dishing out honest reviews
about food and dining places, countries and cities that he travels to and visits, and generic lifestyle prod
about food and dining places, countries and cities that he
travels to and visits, and
generic lifestyle products.
While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful
travel journalism out there to offset the
generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to create bad
travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here; stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their
travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding
travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their
travels with industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions
about certain parts of the world.
Most
travel guides that you purchase in a book store are loaded with
generic information
about a destination — we offer that information (and more) for free in our online vacation planner.
I write
about previous trips which is fine of course, but a
travel blog claiming to
travel full time and then posting
generics from the comfort of a flat — it's not real to me, nor should we give them the respect they clearly want for being so smart by not
travelling yet having an awesome
travel blog that has fooled us all into thingking they really
travel.
Travel blogger uploads a «
Generic shit Facebook update» about a place the writer / blogger has never been to, accompanied by an even more «generic shit quote» like «Wow — this sunset was in the Ma
Generic shit Facebook update»
about a place the writer / blogger has never been to, accompanied by an even more «
generic shit quote» like «Wow — this sunset was in the Ma
generic shit quote» like «Wow — this sunset was in the Maldives!
Travel Blogger uploads a «
Generic photo» of a place that the person who blogged
about it never even went to or hasn't even been to.
From capturing outposts to unlocking fast
travel points, all activities are so
generic, I didn't care
about them.
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About Blog Ladyironchef, writes about his personal experiences from his daily life, dishing out honest reviews about food and dining places, countries and cities that he travels to and visits, and generic lifestyle prod
About Blog Ladyironchef, writes
about his personal experiences from his daily life, dishing out honest reviews about food and dining places, countries and cities that he travels to and visits, and generic lifestyle prod
about his personal experiences from his daily life, dishing out honest reviews
about food and dining places, countries and cities that he travels to and visits, and generic lifestyle prod
about food and dining places, countries and cities that he
travels to and visits, and
generic lifestyle products.