While I was casually surfing a few weeks ago – OK, OK, I was Googling my name – I found out that one of my books, Rainbow Diary, was part of the 2012 GCSE English Lit syllabus for OCR (Oxford and Cambridge). My first reaction was disbelief. Like a good journalist , I checked. So […]
Travel Workshop on Andros Island
Aegean Arts Circle Workshop THREE with travel writer JOHN MALATHRONAS in Andros 2013 Sept. 1st – 6th Workshop Description: Travel writing workshop: Using ANDROS as a “live subject” participants will learn about note taking, avoidance of clichés, concentrating on people rather than yourself, editing, research. This is more or less useful for any writing assignment. […]
Travel Writing Essentials: Openers
I saw a competition for travel writing openers recently and I shook my head. I wish I could wave a wand and remove Opening Sentence Stress from budding travelogue writers. You see, I don’t think the opening sentence important. The opening paragraph is. Let me emphasise that this doesn’t apply to articles or short stories. […]