Writing is my passion and my livelihood.
This is why it’s important for me to join a writer’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 [...]
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 [...]
Today’s Post is a re-print of a terrific article I found that I believe every travel blogger should read.
The author, Lisa Gerber of Big Leap Creative, graciously agreed to let me re-publish her wonderful advice to bloggers, which was inspired by her trip to TBEX10 last month.
So without further ado, here is Lisa’s article – [...]
Most writers have a certain ownership of their words.
Of course we do! As professionals, we also expect others to pay us for our words.
When publishers or editors purchase an article or story, they often request or require certain rights to that work.
In other words, the author may not maintain complete ownership of his [...]
One of the things that keeps me busiest is answering the many emails I receive.
Although I encourage travel writers to use our Forum, where we have some great writers, bloggers, and tech-geeks, in order to get a wider variety of answers than just mine.
However, I know that some folks are a bit hesitant to [...]
It’s a fact.
Writers must be good at self-editing to really succeed in print these days.
Many print publications – as well as some online news/magazine websites and large e-zines – have downsized their editing staff, and yet still want to maintain their high standard of editorial quality.
Thus, when faced with the choice of accepting submissions [...]
Welcome to the first Travel Blog Review in our “Under the Microscope” series!
This past week our Travel Writers’ Forum members reviewed Tourfolio.com, a travel blog founded by Bryan Cassidy.
The goal of this series of travel blog reviews – handled entirely through our Forum – is to help travel bloggers discover what visitors like, or don’t [...]
A couple of years ago, I came across a treasure.
At least I think it was a treasure. Unfortunately, its real value I’ll never know.
What I found, while taking a break in my boat (I’m a sculler as well as a travel writer) was a bottle bobbing in the waves. I paddled over to [...]
It seems like you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing the latest buzz words, “Personal Branding”
Seriously, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t mentioned in at least one – if not more – of the freelance writing newsletters you subscribe to.
In my email this week I learned that MediaBistro has an online course titled “Brand [...]
Where do you find the time to write?
That is a question most writers ask themselves at one time or another, or all of the time.
I’ve taken more time management classes than I can count and always pick up a hint or two that I can incorporate.
However, I discovered most people taking these classes are [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve indulged myself with a good rant.
But this one has been building steam.
It seems like lately I’ve been seeing certain mistakes being made by travel writers and bloggers that are clearly negatively impacting them, but they don’t realize it.
Some make me want to reach through my monitor and grab [...]
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 [...]
A couple of months ago I was honored and privileged to be asked by Andy Hayes to review an advance copy of a new eBook from Travel Online Partners.
Many of you already know Andy through social networks and his consumer travel website and travel blog, “Sharing Travel Experiences“, but you may not know that Andy [...]
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 [...]
Why are you doing, or even thinking about doing, this thing called “blogging?”
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 [...]
