Travel Writing Cliches to Avoid.
Travel writing is riddled with cliches. They make your writing predictable and unmemorable. Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
The best way to be familiar with those cliches is to read a lot. If you’ve got your brain switched on, the cliches start popping out at you after a while.
Here’s a glossary to the most popular (oh, and I promise never to use any of them).
Steeped in history. A town or city where loads of things happened once. People were separated from their heads in the town square, invading armies heaved themselves uphill towards the castle (now open for guided tours) and pustule-riddled plague victims were wheeled off on a cart. We’ve loads of places like this in the UK.
