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		<title>Make the Most Out of a Writing Workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/08/make-the-most-out-of-a-writing-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prime Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing is my passion and my livelihood.
This is why it&#8217;s important for me to join a writer&#8217;s workshop as I consider it both as a treat to myself and a career investment. 
Going to a three day workshop allows me to have a break from the daily stream of news that passes through my inbox [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; August 23, 2010.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>When Good Press Trips Go Bad</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/08/when-good-press-trips-go-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoAnna Haugen</dc:creator>
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When we go on press trips, we hope that we’ll have fun, eat the local food, meet interesting people and pick up a story or two along the way that will knock the socks off of our editors.
Unfortunately, there will be press trips that are unorganized, boring and uninspiring … and finding a story to [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; August 6, 2010.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>Learn How To Work With Tourism Boards</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/07/learn-how-to-work-with-tourism-boards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariellen Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no such thing as a free lunch – but who wants to eat alone anyway?
One day during the summer of 2009, I picked up the phone and Vibhava, an  IndiaTourism officer I knew, said: “I have been reading your blog. You really love India. The next time you go to India, you will [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; July 9, 2010.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>Write as if Your Life Depends On It</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/04/write-as-if-your-life-depends-on-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dianne Sharma Winter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I walked into a writer’s workshop, I had a story to tell and thought it was ready to rock and roll.
After all, hadn’t I just spent six months crouched over my laptop in the garage of my cousin’s house, wrapped in a blanket and writing my story? 
Hadn’t the publisher agreed also [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; April 21, 2010.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Tips for Hunting Down Stories on the Road</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/04/ten-tips-for-hunting-down-stories-on-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dianne Sharma Winter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can happen to us all, eventually.
Dare I admit it in public though? 
That travel writers and traveling can jade the adventurous spirit, that you can be in a dream location and suddenly have nothing to write about. 
That you don’t want to write about coconut trees swaying in the tropical and scented breeze because [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; April 7, 2010.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>Mentoring: The Two-Way Street to Success</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/03/mentoring-the-two-way-street-to-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Waugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
You Mentor Me and I’ll Mentor You.
My blog is less than a year old, yet it now holds position 51 in Travel Blog Sites’s top 100 travel blogs.  
I could not have achieved this spot without my blogging mentor.
Keith of the Velvet Escape and I met on Twitter 10 months ago. I was very, [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; March 22, 2010.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why are you Blogging?</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/02/why-are-you-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo Millure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are you doing, or even thinking about doing, this thing called &#8220;blogging?&#8221;
Oh so long ago in blog years, back in December of 2008 sometime between the hours of midnight and 3 am, I started my first blog.  
After ten clicks and minutes I had set one up with what I thought was the cutest [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; February 26, 2010.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of a Writers Agreement</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/02/the-importance-of-a-writers-agreement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s world the economics of writing have changed.
As a small publisher, (and YES every blogger is a publisher), you have access to many writers that will write for free or almost free.  
Some write for the thrill of writing and others are motivated more by the “perks”.  
While “perks” vary from niche [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; February 22, 2010.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Finding Your Travel Niche</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/01/the-importance-of-finding-your-travel-niche/</link>
		<comments>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2010/01/the-importance-of-finding-your-travel-niche/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariellen Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write about “all things India”. 
I write about India in newspaper and magazine articles, on Facebook and Twitter, in emails and essays and, of course, especially on my travel blog, Breathedreamgo.com.
 
Every one who knows me is well-acquainted with my obsession, er passion, for India. But now and again someone asks me, “why India?” Like [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; January 18, 2010.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lessons From a Successful Travel Blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2009/12/lessons-from-a-successful-travel-blogger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/2009/12/lessons-from-a-successful-travel-blogger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Arndt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been running my travel blog now for three years. Here are some of the things I&#8217;ve learned on the way. 
1. Content is not king. 
You often hear the phrase, &#8220;content is king&#8221;. This is simply not true. Content is not king. It is true your content can&#8217;t be bad, but simply being a [...]<hr /><small>Copyright &#169; December 14, 2009.<br /> This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@travel-writers-exchange.com so we can take legal action immediately.  (Digital Fingerprint:<br /> 18bab19620930de70bebd819e304c35f (38.107.191.87) )</small>]]></description>
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