Author Archives: Nathanael Smith

About Nathanael Smith

Nathanael is a staff content writer for World Words. He writes about travel for a variety of newspapers and magazines and can often be heard on BBC Radio. READ HIS FULL BIO.

Foolproof Proofreading: Our Top Tips

Posted on by
Reply

Proofreading is an essential part of any content creator’s job. It is the final polish that ensures your senior editor, client and, ultimately, readers can enjoy your work without being thrown by small yet glaring mistakes. Whatever your role in the writing and editing process, you need to learn how to proofread effectively and eliminate errors.

Our writing and editing experts at World Words have written before about how to edit, with advice ranging from reading aloud to tinkering with tenses. But this blog is more about what you should be editing. Keep reading for a grammatical line-up of all the usual suspects; the sneaky career criminals that can terrorise even the best copy.

2349632625_7c2813f45b_o

Continue reading →

A Small Selection of World Words’ Best Travel Content Writing Advice… Part 2

Posted on by
Reply

A couple of weeks ago, we posted about some of our travel content writing advice that has been circulating online. But that was just part one. Here are some more of our tips and tricks to hone your wordsmithing skills.

From destination guides to travel features, World Words writes about travel in every shape and form, collecting wisdom along the way. There is always more to learn about the craft of writing and always more advice to give.

From warnings about the perils of travel writing clichés, to the necessity of being specific in your content writing, from research to headlines, we’re full of great advice to improve your travel content writing.

Scroll on down to have a read.

DCF 1.0

Continue reading →

Why You Should Insist on Consistency

Posted on by
Reply

There are many varied ways in which you can approach style, grammar and tone when writing original travel web copy. Yet what matters most is not how you choose to write content, but that you always write with consistency.

For writers and editors alike, consistency shows your attention to detail, and is a vital way in which to present a unified and cohesive voice across a number of different topics. Writing is not unlike a bread dough: without good consistency, it all falls apart. So how do you ensure consistency throughout an article, a website or even an entire publication? We have outlined some of the most important reasons for consistency, and how to achieve it, below.

3219576544_6f9092d2c9_b

Continue reading →

Tips and Tricks: The Best of our Expert Travel Content Writing Advice (Part 1)

Posted on by
1

After years of writing quality travel content for a plethora of clients across print and online, the World Words team has learnt a few tricks of the trade. And we are happy to share our knowledge with every other travel writer, copy editor and content creator striving to improve their craft. That’s why we regularly publish advice posts on this blog.

Recently, several of our advice columns have been republished by third parties, from travel tech news site Tnooz travel industry media platform Media Kitty. We’ve collated the best of our travel advice articles below, with more to follow next month (in Part 2). So whether you are a budding writer or the brains behind a travel site with dozens of contributors, keep reading for tips on scheduling your work, advice on editing and a list of travel clichés to avoid.

311924845_ca5bee1149_o Continue reading →