Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing
Gordon Cope was previously featured on Reading Recommendations and offered to write this new 3-part series about writing travel memoirs.
How to Write Travel Memoirs
I recently attended the San Miguel de Allende Writer’s Conference, held each February. In addition to fantastic speakers (Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem and Scott Turow this year), the conference runs over 50 seminars on everything from ePublishing to poetry. When an instructor asks for a raise-of-hands to show who is working on what genre, the memoir always wins.
The memoir genre is not held in high regard; I once heard it described as the bastard son of non-fiction. But for aspiring writers, it is an enjoyable, accessible vehicle; the travel memoir, especially, inspires nascent authors to grasp their digital mice and let their imaginations flow.
Having read many travel memoirs (and written three), I recently sat down and pondered exactly what makes a travel memoir…
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