← Previous – TW14A – Next → Chapter 14A HISTORY WITHOUT TOILWork on Quality Contents The most interesting aspect of traveling, for me, is to delve into the history of those places that I visit, to uncover the past. It has to do with
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← Previous – TW13B – Next → Chapter 13BTRAVELING WITH TRAVEL WRITERSThe Good Ones As Robin said, you don’t have to be romantic to be a travel writer but it sure helps. Robin has an enthusiasm for travel that is infectious. He was born
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← Previous – TW13A – Next → Chapter 13ATRAVELING WITH TRAVEL WRITERSThe Challenging Ones Traveling with travel writers is as bad as traveling with photographers. My wife can testify to that. “Can’t we just go someplace without you wanting to write about it.” I
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← Previous – TW12B – Next → Chapter 12BTRAVELING WITH PHOTOGRAPHERSLessons Learned One of the most daring writer/photographers I ever worked with was John Everingham. During the war in Vietnam, John was a war photographer who spent much of his time in Laos. When
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← Previous – TW12A – Next → Chapter 12ATRAVELING WITH PHOTOGRAPHERSThe Good and the Bad The one thing I don’t like about travel writing is the need to take pictures. That doesn’t mean I dislike taking pictures, for I do. I have on file
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← Previous – TW11C – Next → Chapter 11CTHE IMPORTANCE OF READINGReading is Educating I believe to a great extent that public relations, or call it publicity, is what create many writers. You have a good publicist and half the battle is won. How
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← Previous – TW11B – Next → Chapter 11BTHE IMPORTANCE OF READINGLearning Never Stops In Paris, I had another wakening. My education was slow and painful. From security guard I was assigned to be the orderly for Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. From this experience, years
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← Previous – TW11A – Next → Chapter 11ATHE IMPORTANCE OF READINGStart Early at Home I had a sister four years older than me, and she was a genius. She could talk to animals. She had regular conversations with them, and she had them
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← Previous – TW10C – Next → Chapter 10CThe Price of Plagiarism The price writers pay for deceiving and plagiarizing, and they pay sooner or later, is heavy. Kaavya Viswanathan knows. A teenage author, she made the best-selling list with her book How Opal
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← Previous – TW10B – Next → Chapter 10BWhen and How Discovered Let’s look at the facts. We read books that have been recommended based on the message they have to tell. We rely on the publishers, not necessarily book critics, to define the
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