How to Convert Your Travel Notes Into a Book
Traveling on a short trip or long vacation exposes us to new and unique adventures, creating long-lasting memories. Capturing those everlasting experience and memories in the form of a travel narrative sometimes become difficult for us.
Recalling or recapturing the journey experience after the moment is incredibly hard. Therefore, we must record and store those experiences and memories creatively and permanently. Here we have shared some tips to create your travel notes that help turns them into a book.
Structuring the Writing Alongside the Travel
Once you find the inspiration for writing the experience-based trvel narration or storytelling of the place, start thinking about the approach to document it. Initiate your writing alongside the travel benefits in proper planning, information collection, organized thoughts, and richer memoirs. Check out these pointers while structuring the trip notes.
Keep Writing During the Travel
Zotting down things when they are fresh in memory helps them remember for a long time. While traveling, highlight each day’s experience in your diary, like what made you smile today, what surprised you, your feelings, places you visited, people you encountered, something new you learned, etc. Mention each day’s activity with the day and date. It will help you remember what you did on what day.
Keep Tagging Pictures and Moments to Add Details Later
There is an old saying – ‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’ Pictures are the visual reminders of the trip and tagging them in your journal helps you remember associated memories. We can also collect boarding passes, postcards, business cards from restaurants, paper menus, and others to bring life to memories. You can also draw sketches to capture things you have seen or done and add visual interest.
Write About the Preparation and the Plan from Start to Finish
Trip planning is the essential part that must include the selection of destination, duration of the trip, day-wise activities, course of action, etc. Make a note of all these activities for the perfect trip organization. Proper planning from start to finish streamlines your vacation to perfect adventure and harmony.
Write the Activities
To create a fascinating story, capture daily activities in your traveling note. Write about activities like places visited, sports or recreation activities, restaurants, and different food explored, etc. You can mention your likes and dislikes about the place visit, food, adventure, and other intimate details to reflect your experience.
About the People You Met and the Interactions
Include people whom you met on the journey and interactions with them. For example, describe your fellow traveler, the conversation you shared, what you liked about him and the conversation, how you felt, etc. Describing a character makes your story more appealing and engaging.
Your Expectations and Experience
List down your trip expectation, how you want to feel, what you want to learn, your future reaction to the situation, etc. At the end of the journey, you can compare your listed expectations with the experience you gained.
Editing and Proof Reading
Editing and proofreading travel content improve the effectiveness of your writing style and the clarity of your idea. It makes the writing flow beautifully that can resonate with the audience.
The editing process checks the organization of writing, i.e., introduction and conclusion, paragraph structure, clear and focussed main idea, clarity of manuscript ideas, sentence structure, etc.
Proofreading after editing helps find errors with a more focused eye. It finds and corrects errors in writing, grammar, and language.
Enjoy Writing Travel Notes to Develop Them into a Book
As travel trips are fun and full of adventure, so should the travel notes. Our travel journal should capture stories, discoveries, adventure, beauty, experience, memories, and more to turn it into a readable and engaging book.
The Story Cabinet (TSC), a phone-based short story platform, provides the opportunity to create, publish, and discover stories. Visit the Writer’s section in TSC to publish your travel chapters and share your adventurous travel journey with many.