Thomas Swick’s ‘Letter to a Young Travel Writer’

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.27.07 | 4:41 PM ET

Specifically, to Drew Barrymore, who was once quoted as saying, “Screw Hollywood, I’m going to be a travel writer.” Travel writing would be perfect for the actress, Swick believes. Among other benefits, she’d escape the harsh glare of the media spotlight —travel writers, he notes, “are the writing world’s witness protection program”—and she wouldn’t have to memorize more scripts. “Though there’s one thing that’s not gonna be ANY different: people are still gonna think that what you’re doing isn’t really work,” Swick writes. “I know, it’s crazy, but that’s how people are.”
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