Book Genre Quiz
Travel Writing
You head off lightly to places that catch your interest, and briskly tell people what you saw in your own words.
Travel writing is a genre in which writers set down what they saw, ate and the people they met in places they actually visited. Many travel books follow the trip day by day in the order it happened, so readers get the feeling of moving from town to town alongside the writer.
Rather than staying long in one place, travel writing visits one new place after another and records what it confirmed on the spot. You trust what you've seen with your own eyes more than what you've heard from others, and you briskly head off to wherever catches your interest.
Because you set off so lightly, you may move on before you've seen to the heart of a place. Asked about somewhere you went before, you might have to admit, “I was only passing through.” Pick one place you like — even close to home — and go back again, and your stories will gain depth.
Strengths
- You can jump right into new places and new people
- You can pass on what you saw, along with the feel of the place
- You can try lots of things for real and see for yourself
Where you may stumble
- Curious about the next place, you cut your time at the current one short
- You have plenty of stories, but none of them get finished
- You pack in so many plans that every one of them becomes a rush
Sounds familiar, Travel Writing?
- When you talk about an outing, you're acting it out with gestures before you even get the photos out
- Your list of places you'd “love to go someday” keeps getting longer
- Even in your own neighborhood, you take a street you've never walked down on your way home
Where you shine
Scouting out somewhere new, or telling others what you've seen. What you bring back from traveling light and seeing for yourself can become a reassuring signpost for others.
Tips for “Travel Writing”
- Pick one place you liked and visit it once more
- Leave some do-nothing time between plans
- Pick just one of your stories and tell it all the way to the end
Matches
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Cookbook — Cookbook is another genre that tries things out right away to see for itself. For Travel Writing, which keeps moving from place to place, Cookbook, which finishes one thing by following the steps, turns what you saw on your trips into something that lasts once you're home.
Manga — Manga shares your taste for a wide range of things at a brisk pace. When Travel Writing talks about scenery it has seen, Manga spins it into a fun story you can practically picture. You move on to the next thing at a similar speed, so you never get bored together.
Fantasy — Fantasy is a genre that immerses itself slowly and for a long time in one imaginary world. Travel Writing wants to go and see for real, Fantasy wants to imagine a world nobody can visit yet, and even when you're both talking about “going somewhere far away,” you enjoy it in opposite directions.
Close neighbors
These differ from this one on just 1 of the 3 axes. If one of your axes was near the middle, you may have their side too.
Which one are you? 18 everyday situations, about 3 minutes.
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