One of the most common questions novice travel writers ask is, “Should I write my article first and then send a query to the magazine editors,… …or should I query my story to the editor […]
In my first couple of years in the freelance writing game, I would occasionally discover magazines that did not pay their contributors. In fact, you’d be surprised at how many magazines don’t pay their writers. […]
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 […]
If you asked my New Zealand Elementary and Intermediate school English teachers which of their students were the most promising,… …and who had the best chance of becoming an internationally published freelance writer, my name […]
These days my inbox is inundated with some of the worst query letters ever. If you’re pitching article ideas but getting rejections (or not getting any responses at all), then this post is for you […]
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 […]
Information gathering is fine but experience teaches us the best travel writing lessons. I know plenty of aspiring writers with superb writing skills and all the right education, who never quite get to the stage […]
If you want to break into travel writing, you need to understand that there’s far more to travel writing success than simply doing one task well, like writing. Getting your stories published, and getting paid […]
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 […]
Nearly everyone has a totally skewed idea about the travel writer’s life. The most popular perception is that we flit around Europe’s most romantic destinations—or perhaps exotic S.E. Asian islands—staying for free in luxury resorts […]
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