Think of your favorite hero or heroine from literature. Now re-write the disappointing entry from your travel journal as if it happened to the character instead of you. Give it a different ending.
Writing Prompt
Katniss Goes to Paris ~ Travel Writing Prompt
An alternative to this exercise it to spend each day of your trip writing in a different character’s voice. In stead of you writing about how you saw the Eiffel Tower, write as if you were Katniss Everdeen seeing the Eiffel Tower and describing it. Perhaps she is even worried the Capitol may be using it as a transmission tower.
Scrapbooking the Rain
Sitting on the back porch of a cabin, hidden in the woods deep in the Hocking Hills of Ohio, I wrestled with one of my favorite creative writing exercises. The object of the task is to describe your immediate surroundings in different ways corresponding with different genres. This particular rainy day, it went something like this: