How To Write Better Travel Stories

A lot of readers have been checking out our submission guidelines lately. That's cool and we look forward to reading your stuff. Here are three tips to help your work not just fit the specs but rock the site.

1. Write quality not quantity. Whenever a famous author dies, people race to be first in uttering the phrase "He was a prolific writer!" That just means he produced a ton of words. Yet, when you ask what book was his masterpiece, so you can actually sample his art without devoting your life to it, you often get something like "Well, this book truly defined a generation and that one perfectly captures his self-loathing phase."

Johnny Depp's Puerto Rican Rum Diary

Just when the world couldn't tolerate another Pirates of the Caribbean sequel fleecing cash out of the cool original, super-wealthy super-Johnny makes Journalists of the Caribbean: a literary film that restores his reputation as a serious artist who despises the rich. Actually, it's called The Rum Diary. Based on the Hunter S. Thompson novel, this movie is more than good enough to let our beloved Deppster take his wad of money back to France and hold his head up high amongst his Disney-and-new-money-hating neighbors. Good call Johnny.

Johnny Depp Is A Dead Man

Living is optional, but traveling is not. Johnny Depp takes the journey we all must in the obscure film Dead Man. With riveting black and white photography and searing Neil Young guitar, the Deppster follows a shamanistic guide across the Wild West frontier of the world to a Northwest Indigenous village, from whence he embarks on his final canoe voyage into the setting sun.