28 May 11 Tips for Travel Writing

Who is a travel writer? Well, simply put he is the person who travels a lot and writes lot about the same. If you are fond of travelling equal to the fondness for writing, it’s an extremely passionate career offering great remuneration, free stay, and great cuisine. For better understanding about the job profile, here are useful tips for your help.

Travel, travel and travel

For a travel writer flight, hotel room, jungle camp, train, cruise is more like a home, a comfort zone as he is mostly travelling. It has no other substitute. You can’t write about a place in a good manner unless you have experienced it yourself. You will miss out many points if you have not been through that. So just, go out and experience the world. Know folks, culture, cuisine, customs, and lifestyle of a place. Even if you don’t understand their language, you can get hold of its pulse.

A new perspective

Write from a new perspective with fresh findings. As most of the places are talked about, written about in all travel magazines and portals it’s difficult to find a new place altogether. Instead you may find something new about the same place and write from a new point of view altogether. As for example, you may do research on tribes of a particular place and talk about their origin, lifestyle and attachment with the place. You may trace origin of a city’s road construction history and write on the same in a vivid interesting way.

Travel reporting

Remember, a travel writer is different from a tourist. Travel writer is doing travel journalism, but in a creative manner. While you travel and visit places take notes, ask questions to the local folks and supervisors of places, know expenses of places, observe lifestyle, check public transport, taste food, know climatic conditions. You may also quote a person in your writing. The more real is your writing better travel writer you are. Learn to capture sight, sound, smell – in a nutshell essence of the place in your writing.

Read extensively

You can’t write well if you don’t read much. Start reading. Read other travel writers to know what sells, what makes a travel write up popular and a masterpiece. Pay attention to the style of writing, technical aspects of writing etc. Apart from travel books, read history, geography.

Start writing. Start travelling.

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12 Dec 10 5 Tips to Nurture Creativity

Are you trying hard to be creative and prove the creative spark within you? Don’t try so hard, we all are creative in greater or smaller proportion. At times it’s latent, so we don’t realize its power and consider ourselves not so creative. Don’t feel that way. All you need to do is stir the creative juice flowing within your mind. It will make you conceptualize ideas, innovate things. A creative mind and its output not only draw materialistic gain, but also immense mental satisfaction and physical well-being. Sharpen your creative side, today.

Here are some tips to evolve as a better creative person.

A pair of thirsty eyes

Change your vision, change the way you look at things with a pinch of newness. Get rid of pre-occupied ideas and notions. Look at things like a child with sheer enthusiasm, curiosity and eagerness. It will definitely help you to overcome your bias, see the world from a new perspective and develop a creative mind.

Stay active

Stay fit and active. An active mind only nurtures creativity and helps creative ideas to evolve. Exercise daily, fresh ideas can evolve anytime. Physical activities will also sharpen your mental acuteness.

Break the rule

A creative person can never be average and conventional. Challenge rules, conventions. Don’t make your life as like others. Try to be different. Break the monotony. If you normally go to movie every weekend, this weekend indulge yourself with a puppet show. Challenge your own understanding and see how you perform. Variety is the key to creativity. Don’t restrict your mind. Explore the world. Don’t follow route, create your own route.

Question everything

A curious mind always learns new things, cultivate creative ideas and innovate new things. Question everything around you. The answer may lead to some creative ideas.

Study things, read more

Learning is the key to creativity. Experience of life is enriched with studying the surrounding, studying art and music, voracious reading etc. It will expand your horizon and help you to evolve as a better creative person. Study people around you, their lifestyle, places, nature. It will give you many ideas. Reading will sharpen your vocabulary power and command on language. It will also help you to come across with better ideas.

Just go with the flow. Nurture your creative mind.

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29 Jul 09 Relax At Work

Part of workplace stress is the inability to calm down while you’re under pressure, and just let yourself relax a little bit. Being too stressed then negatively affects your performance, and you begin to produce work that isn’t up to the standard it could be. Much the same way that stress affects you negatively in all aspects of life, your body isn’t going to deliver in the best way possible if you are overstressed. Of course a little bit of stress is a good thing for your health, but too much is always bad, which is why you need to be able to unwind when you’re feeling too stressed out. Learning to relax quickly and quietly at work is one of those things that everyone needs to learn how to do effectively.

Of course on of the easiest strategies is to take a short break if you’re feeling particularly frustrated. Take 5-10 minutes to yourself if you’ve been frustrated working on the same problem for a long period of time without making any headway. This way you can leave the problem, focus on something else for a minute, and you can then reenter the situation with a new perspective.

Another way to keep relaxed is to clear out any unnecessary clutter from your environment, to create a clean and concise work area that makes you feel more productive. Bogging yourself down with cluttered items just makes you feel more trapped and overwhelmed adding to you stress level. Which is exactly why adding plants is a good idea, as it will provide you with fresh air and more healthy natural feel to your office area.

Get a comfortable chair, it’s no use having to work for 8-9 hours in a day on an uncomfortable chair. A comfortable body is a more relaxed body, and the more calm and relaxed that you can be, the better you’re going to feel, and that will translate into your performance.

Finally personalize your workplace. Find out what you are able to bring in, or hang up around your cubicle, and make sure everything is office appropriate, but still make the area yours. By letting your personality flow throughout your surroundings your identity remains unique and true to your character, taking away a little more of the corporate world stress.

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