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Travel Writing: Map Out the Route to Your Dream Profession with Lisa Alpine
December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
| February 6, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
“Do you love to travel? Keep a travel journal? Why not take the next step and turn your daily scribbles into salable articles? You can do this by learning two things: 1) how to improve your storytelling abilities, and 2) how to market your work. “I’ll lead you through the steps of writing a travel story and then targeting and querying your markets [short story anthologies, newspapers, magazines and ezines],” says instructor Lisa Alpine.
“We’ll also discuss ways to generate other travel-related sources of income, such as writing press releases and doing guidebook research. Whether you’re writing about your neighborhood or rafting down the Zambezi, you can develop specialty travel angles that open up publishing avenues beyond the Sunday Travel Section — and still pay well.” So come launch your career as a travel writer!”
Workshop fee $110. Saturday February 6 at The Writing Salon in Berkeley from 10 am – 4 pm.
Here’s an excerpt from Lisa’s Examiner Global Getaways column about the magical stay she had at Damanhur, a spiritual art retreat in northern Italy:
“Rejuvenation can be found at the Federation of Damanhur, a spiritual art community dedicated as a “laboratory for the future of humanity”. It is in the northern foothills near Turin where I spent four days during my last trip to Italy. Guests interested in spiritual renewal come to visit for 1/2 day to a week and include many famous folks like Sting and Julia Butterfly Hill.
“What drew me to stay at Damanhur were stories of an underground Temple of Humankind carved by hand out of the rock. Rich in mosaics, glass, painting and sculpture, with the largest Tiffany cupola in the world, it’s the result of over thirty years of work, begun in secret and revealed to the public in 1991. But what is most interesting is how a large, cohesive community has sprung from this work.”
“…I waited and waited but finally got acknowledged and told that if I wanted, I could join a group from England that was about to leave on a tour of the Egyptian Museum in Turin. I grabbed my camera and was whisked into the bus by a very nice Damanhurian man who spoke excellent English. The bus was full of chattering women with thick British accents. I said hello and that I was from California. They answered back in jolly unison, “We are psychics from England.”