Writing 2219F/G Lecture 1: Travel Writing - Lecture #1
23 Jan 2020
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Cultural assumptions are the stereotypes and first ideas that come to mind when you think of a place. Can be used as a jumping off point for writing dispel it, prove it, etc. Main goal as a travel writer is honest. Recreates everything for your reader voice, people, food, politics, sounds, smells, sights, history (basically a setting description) Looking for the difference foreign (food, what they wear, mannerisms) Honesty balance of the good and the bad in a place (what it"s really like, not an advertisement) Be true to the experience that you had. Ordinary take away your voice from your writing. Replace cliches with specific details you might not know them right away, but you can. Home of the , offer find them if you look for them. Rather than making it about one specific thing, tie it back to cultural now. Write everything down, all the time upload notes, photos, etc.
