Travel is romance. – Ami Granada
The Romantic Travel Writer
For a travel tale to be complete, it must have a quest to follow, a dream to fulfill, because without it, the story is not as meaningful.
What is the significance of a quest in a story? A quest compels you, the writer to ask questions. Some people seek a higher purpose in life. They may be on a journey to self-inquiry. What is important to me?
It is also an invitation for the reader to share the experience with you. In any story, a quest gives substance to your journey, like texture to a craggy mountainside, it may be rough on the edges but the more difficult that climb on the mountain, the more majestic the waterfalls at the end of the trail.
People are curious by nature. We want to know what happens in the end because we have invested our time to read and we cannot simply go around with a writer and not find the sorcerer’s stone, or the crock of gold. With a quest, the reader is pulled into the story. Why do you watch suspense stories? It is to find out what happens in the end. So how do you find out what the quest in your story is?
Ami Granada 