Archive for the ‘Enhance Your Writing’ Category

Market Your Travel Writing with Blogs, Podcasts, and Social Sites
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 15 December 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Opportunities]
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Travel writing is a fun “niche” writing market. Of course, within travel writing there are many “niche travel markets.” Are you doing all that you can to market your travel writing? If you’re not, then find out how you can better position yourself and your travel writing.
There are three main “niche” markets [...]

Travel Writer Uses These Top 10 Press Release Tips — Receives Traffic to Website
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 3 December 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Opportunities, Tips & Tricks]
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A travel writer created a blog about European travel. Her website received TWO MILLION visitors! Her travel writing is very dynamic and she also sells travel on her website. Anyway, hitting 2 million visitors is very newsworthy. She wanted to write and release a press release, but was not sure how [...]

Freelance Travel Writer’s Website Celebrates One Million Visitors
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 19 November 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Getting Readers]
[4 Comments]

It’s time to pop the vintage bottle of champagne and celebrate. A travel writer’s website attracts visitors like bees to a hive! Her travel writing is witty, yet informative. Readers are transported to destinations that they did not know existed. The best part is that readers do not have to leave [...]

To Be or Not Be Travel Writer is an Error
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 1 October 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Writer's Education, Writer's Resources]
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“Want to be travel writer, NOW!” That’s great that you have passion for travel writing, but sometimes mistakes happen when you write for a long period time. Let’s say you are excited to have come back from Salvador, Brazil and cannot wait to write about it. You write and write into the [...]

Travel Writers Take Time to Invest in Becoming a Writer
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 24 September 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Overcoming Obstacles]
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She stares at the computer screen, hoping inspiration will jump out and assist her with writing an article. The only thing on the screen is a cursor that blinks over and over again. She looks around her office and stares at the four white walls. “Yeah, this is inspiring,” she thinks to [...]

Who Else Wants to be the Warren Buffet of Travel Writing?
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 20 August 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Opportunities, Tips & Tricks]
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Are you a bull or a bear? When it comes to travel writing, it’s no bull that investing in your career will take you places that you can only imagine. Here’s an investment tip for you: “a bull market is one in which prices of a certain group of securities are rising or [...]

Make Travel Writing Work for You. Here’s How.
By Amandah Blackwell

Most travel writers want to know how to make travel writing work for them. Here’s a hint: it takes dedication, perseverance, education, research, time, and writing. Travel writers whose dreams are to write for magazines or newspapers, work in television, or write books will put the extra time and effort into their [...]

Point and Click to Instant Travel Writing Tips
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 30 June 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Tips & Tricks]
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You will become a better travel writer if you study writing tips and perform writing exercises. Taking steps to improve your travel writing will benefit you in the long run. The time you spend honing your craft will help you create the writing success you desire as a travel writer.
First, ensure that [...]

Need a Travel Writing Makeover?
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 13 June 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Writer's Education]
[1 Comment]

Travel writers, does your writing need a makeover? Whether you are a novice or expert, it’s good to refresh your skills. One way to do this is by taking classes and courses in travel writing. Another way is to attend a conference or two. Seminars and workshops are also great ways [...]

Traveling is a Journey, How Will Your Words Describe Yours?
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 4 June 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Tips & Tricks, Travel Writing Books]
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Travel writers, traveling is a journey, how will you remember yours? Will your words make your readers want more? Write an article that is fresh, crisp, and stimulates the senses of readers. Get your point across, whether it’s a city’s efforts to “go green” or the vastness of the Sahara. Paint [...]

Who Else Wants to Break Into Travel Writing?
By Amandah Blackwell

Are you an aspiring travel writer? Would you like to write for newspaper travel sections, glossy magazines with gorgeous photos, or other travel publications? If you answered “YES,” then you “stumbled upon” the right website!
Since you are new to travel writing, you may be unsure of what to write. [...]

A Partnership of Travel Writing and Photography
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 20 May 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Tips & Tricks, Writer's Education]
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Travel writing is just like painting: a travel writer uses a palette of words instead of paints! When you breathe life into a story through your words, readers will want more. Part of the fun of travel writing is sharing your knowledge gained from your experience.
A photograph can tell the [...]

A Marriage of a Travel Writer and Graphic Designer
By Amandah Blackwell
[Posted on: 12 May 2008]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Getting Readers, Getting Started]
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Travel writers, do you have graphic design experience? If you said “I do,” then congratulations to you! Your first collaboration can be a blog to showcase your travel writing ability. If you are familiar with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, design you own logo (header) for your blog. In addition to the [...]



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