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I was sitting in my regular bedroom at my computer in my quaint, charming, rustic hometown of Brooklyn, New York, with my dog, Wilson, at my feet when I came across David Farley’s<\/a> article on how to avoid writing bad travel articles.<\/a><\/p>\n Some of his more useful tips include not immediately interjecting you and your companion (like your dog) into your opening, avoiding clich\u00e9s to describe a locale, and drifting around without coming up with some sort of angle to anchor your story.<\/p>\n And like any good writer knows, immerse yourself in the works of talented authors and helpful “how-to books”; for travel writing David recommends Don George’s<\/a>, for general travel writing, I’d recommend Rolf Potts<\/a>, Anthony Bourdain<\/a>, and David Foster Wallace<\/a>.<\/p>\n As soon as I finished reading his piece, I couldn’t help but think to myself how much I looked forward to returning and reading it once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was sitting in my regular bedroom at my computer in my quaint, charming, rustic hometown of Brooklyn, New York, with my dog, Wilson, at my feet when I came across David Farley’s article on how to avoid writing bad travel articles. Some of his more useful tips include not immediately interjecting you and your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2564],"tags":[19],"yoast_head":"\n