Miles Roddis talks about the process of writing a travelguide – Exercise B
1 What is the word Miles Roddis uses to make it clear that the 3 stages of travelwriting – preparation, research and writing up – are not entirely distinct from each other?
2 What is Miles doing when he gets up very early when he is ‘on the road‘?
3 Miles mentions having spent nearly 3 months in Languedoc-Roussillon the previous year. What two adverbial phrases does he apply to the research of this particular region?
4 What two activities are involved in the information Miles collects?
5 Which sort of travelwriting brief is ‘fairly loose’?
6 What is the name of the person at a publisher’s who actually authorises people to write something for publication?
7 Why does Miles mention the concept of a ‘template‘?
8 How long does a restaurant review for a Lonely Planet guidebook have to be?
9 How many words are typical for the review of a particular museum?
10 What word indicates that he is ‘not free‘ to do as he likes when preparing the material for its final presentation?
11 How many drafts of a chapter might he produce before being satisfied with his work?
12 What three particular details does he mention which he sees for the first time when the book ‘plops through the letterbox’?
13 How many authors might be involved in the travelguide for a whole country?
14 How does Miles express the concept of ‘the end result‘?
15 How does he describe his feeling on seeing the finished book?