Broughton Quarterly - Spring 2009 - (Page 11) notes YOU COU L D WRITE A BOOK Really, you could: a photo book. Preserve your travel adventures by making them into a personalized scrapbook. TIPS FOR THE BUDDING TRAVEL WRITER: Go on a vacation or take a quick trip. Take pictures until your travel partners threaten to throw your camera into the waterfall in the hotel lobby. (Still have the time of your life.) Keep your final project in mind while sightseeing. Take pictures of your dinner, the street where you shopped, and the view from your hotel room. Collect ticket stubs, receipts from your gluttonous dinner, and campy brochures from every tourist trap you visit. Scan them when you get home to insert in your book. Write fun narratives. You don’t always have to give a blow-by-blow of each event. Instead of writing “Jill and me at dinner,” punch it up with detail or embellishment. “Jill and me at Ocean Avenue Seafood, where we had the best Maine lobster ever thrown in hot water.” CHOOSE YOUR STYLE OF BOOK: Apple offers its own photo books through iPhoto. They are easy to assemble and even have an “autoflow” feature that will add photos to your book randomly if you feel uninspired. (Apple.com) Shutterfly has a wide variety of photo books, from small and simple to beautiful hard covers. (Shutterfly.com) Blurb is the real deal: a book. (Blurb.com) Upon showing your photo book to friends and family, receive abundant praise and adoration. We don’t need to take any of the credit. Really, we won’t say a word. broughtonQuarterly.com 11 http://www.Apple.com http://www.ShutterFy.com http://www.Blurb.com http://www.BroughtonQuarterly.com
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