Making the Travel Article Memorable

How can we make an article memorable from the point of view of the reader? Any work of creative nature touches a reader through the emotions it generates. When a reader browses through the article, he will get fascinated if he finds some references in it to what he had felt about the place or had picturised in his mind about it. Even if the description is quite contrary to the perception held by him, he would still read on.Thus, with a view to attract and hold your readers’ attention and stick to his memory, you have to make sure that the articles address the basic human emotions. Link the narratives to these, and you are on your way to becoming a successful Travel writer.

The next important factor that makes a Travel Article memorable is to use word Pictures. Use words that paint pictures of what is described. Colours, shapes, flavours, sounds and smells, are to be described and not just alluded to. A ‘Golden red sky’, better paints the Sun about to set over the horizon, than ’red sky’. The early dawn is better described by the sound of the Cocks heralding the day, the cows mooing in the barns, the little birds merrily chirping in welcome, and so on. A busy market is best described by the cacophony of the vendors, the babble of the customers and so on.

The eerie silence of the grave yard is well painted through the absence of several usual sounds at such a place, that of the bats, the owls, a stray jackal, etc. Here we are actually playing a double game: we are arousing images of the sounds in the minds of the reader, and then referring to the absence of those images in the place under narration.