Travel writing and literature workshop
This literary journey will offer practical tips and ideas for writing travelogues and crafting engaging and entertaining narratives of your own travel experiences. It's a program designed to help you present your travel stories in a clear and well-organized way. The ultimate goal is to create inspired and creative travel writing.
Minimum number of participants to start the workshop: 10 people · Maximum number of places: 25 people
Information:
91 360 54 09
workshops@circulobellasartes.com
- Date:
- 12.03.2018 - 15.03.2018
- Schedule:
- 18:30 - 21:00
- Price:
- [General 75€ · CBA members 60€]
- DIRECTED BY:
Program
HOW TO WRITE A TRAVEL REPORT OR CHRONICLE
Gender distinction:
1. The Report
2. Article
* Resources, order, synthesis and conjunction of a text.
* To describe a trip in writing as we would like it to be described to us.
* Objectivity and subjectivity. Narrative recreation.
* The essentials in a travelogue. The dispensable, the predictable, and the avoidable.
* The travel diary. Developing a text from the notes of a travel diary.
* Writing for travel magazines.
* The new platforms for travel expression.HOW TO READ AND WRITE TRAVEL BOOKS.
* Read and travel before writing. How to select travel books.
* Prominent authors/writers in travel literature.
* Distinction between journalistic language and literary language.
* Keys to literary creation in the travel genre. Originality and daring.
* Structure and construction of a traveling literary work.
* The adventure of writing (and publishing) a travel book.PREPARATION OF TEXTS BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS OF PATHS AND DESTINATIONS.
* Tests of individual texts.
* Drafting a common collective text.SPECIAL FIELD PRACTICE WITH APPLICATION OF WHAT WAS COVERED IN PREVIOUS DAYS.
* Practical field exercise to apply the material covered in the previous days. Active participation of course attendees.