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Post» Falling In Love With A Destination May Not Translate Into Selling Travel Stories

Posted: March 21, 2022 Roy Stevenson

As a travel writer, I’ve visited plenty of destinations that I just itched to write about. These were places that excited me and that I connected with on some emotional level. After my first visit […]

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Post» Marketing Tasks To Establish & Promote Your Travel Writing Brand

Posted: February 21, 2022 Roy Stevenson

The multitude of marketing tasks it takes to promote ourselves and our freelance writing these days, is daunting. So much to do, so little time! When we’re overloaded, we tend to freeze up and not […]

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Post» Travel Writing Ethics & The Dilemma Of Complimentary Travel

Updated: Feb 20th, 2022Posted: January 12, 2022 Roy Stevenson

Travel and Tourism Is One Of The World’s Largest Industries In the global economy the total contribution was $7.6 trillion (USD) in 2016. And direct revenue from international tourism, according to Statista.com, was $1.6 trillion. […]

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Post» Sell Multiple Stories About Your Destinations

Posted: October 22, 2020 Roy Stevenson

As a freelance writer, your time is your currency. Anytime you can get multiple stories from one place or attraction, you save yourself a lot of time. You research the destination only once. You make […]

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Post» Create Your Own Freelance Writing Sales System

Updated: Jan 20th, 2021Posted: September 21, 2020 Roy Stevenson

In my third year of freelancing, I attended a Pacific Northwest travel writing conference. A discovery I made there rocked my world. It had a profound effect on my freelance writing career. And it would […]

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Post» Outdated Travel Writing “Rules” That Should Be Broken

Updated: Jan 20th, 2021Posted: June 16, 2020 Roy Stevenson

Every year, thousands of aspiring travel writers try to break into this exciting field. They want to snag paying print media assignments in glossy magazines. They want to land press trips and get those glamorous […]

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Post» Don’t Let Feedback On Your Writing Sting Your Ego

Posted: April 20, 2020 Roy Stevenson

During my first few years of freelance writing, several magazine editors sent my manuscripts back to me, requesting rewrites. They liked my story ideas but wanted the articles rewritten, more detailed, or presented from a […]

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Post» Can We Make a Living and Support Ourselves Solely from Freelance Travel Writing?

Posted: January 13, 2020 Roy Stevenson

I received this question via email some time ago. It’s a valid question and one that provokes all sorts of evasive answers from travel writers, depending on where they lie along the travel writing spectrum. […]

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Post» The Self As Character: Writing In First Person Point Of View

Posted: December 16, 2019 Nick O'Connell

Editor’s Note: The following article about narrative essay-style travel writing is a reprint from the author’s website, The Writer’s Workshop, our thanks to Nick for his permission to share it here! First person point […]

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Post» What Novice Travel Writers Need to Learn . . . Fast!

Posted: November 18, 2019 Roy Stevenson

I know that I make freelance travel writing look easy. I’ve had more than 1,000 articles published in 200+ regional, national, and international magazines, newspapers, trade journals, custom publications, specialty magazines, in-flights, on-boards, and online […]

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