This assignment might seem a bit confusing at first. After all, some of the best travel writing has the personal embedded in it, and it often takes the form of a Feature (see Module 9). How is this different that a feature? Personal and reflective pieces are published. While many are still considered Features, in this assignment, I want you to focus on a place’s effect on you rather than trying to focus on describing the place itself. What I want you to avoid is a straight travelogue or narrative—instead, focus on what it means to be in place, and be introspective. There certainly can be narrative elements and structure, but it should be less about the place and more about you.

Your assignment

You will write a Personal Article that an audience looking to visit where you are writing about would be interested in. You should focus mostly on your reaction or insights about a place, how it changed you (or didn’t), or how it became something more than just another destination. It doesn’t have to be a linear narrative like a travelogue—for example, the Korean karaoke piece in the Samples for this module. As with the travelogue, try and keep it simple, focusing on one topic. While it can follow a linear narrative, it doesn’t have to. In fact, it can cobble together multiple stories of a place’s effect on you. If you are a person who needs a word count, stick to something that is between 500 and 1,500 words.

1. When you are done, compose/paste into a New Post on the Writing Adventures blog.
2. Select Personal from the Categories
3. Write in your Tag. If you are using more than one tag, separate them with a comma.
4. Select Publish.
5. Await your Editorial Review task. Complete your review of your peers’s work.
6. After you receive your review comments from me and your peers, revise your work and change it on the Writing Adventures blog.