Journo's Pro Tip: 'Avoid Travel-Writerese'
The Irish Times Amateur Travel Writing Competition is off and running.
Currently open for submissions, The Irish Times Amateur Travel Writing Competition will send one lucky winner abroad and publish the resulting article in the newspaper’s weekend magazine supplement. To help guide potential participants, the paper rounded up some tips from its professional writers.
There’s a lot of great advice here, starting with this bit from Fionn Davenport (pictured):
Avoid using the particularly noxious language that is travel-writerese. The sea is rarely (sadly) emerald green and there’s never been a “breathtaking” sunset, unless someone has punched you in the solar plexus just as the sun was going down.
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