Travel writing – do you include the good the bad and the ugly?
Beth Whitman Author of Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo, includes only the good in her writing. Quoted in the Seattle Weekly by Karla Star, Beth says “I don’t read movie reviews….I just want to know what the movie was about,” she says. “The job of a travel writer is to write about the good, to write about what excites you.” Read the article here
I am not so sure – I think that we should write about the totality of our experience – that is what travelling is about. Not bad mouthing for the sake of a story (some writers seem to build a reputation on this style), but being real about the joys and struggles we encounter along the way – some of them of our own making! What do you think?
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