Overcoming Obstacles | Travel Writers Exchange

Post» Top 7 Posts Worth Revisiting

Posted: September 12, 2011 Trisha Miller

Many of our readers are already familiar with TripBase’s 7 Links Project… …And many have already participated. For those of you who may not have heard of it, the idea is for nominated bloggers to […]

Post» Title? Check. First Sentence? Check.

Posted: July 4, 2011 Susan Farewell

Years ago, while driving around Norway, my colleague (also a journalist) suddenly announced quite smugly… …“Well…I’ve come up with a title and a first sentence, so my story is done. Now I can relax and […]

Post» Losing it Over Lost Luggage

Posted: June 6, 2011 Susan Farewell

A few weeks ago, someone I was traveling with lost her luggage… …well, briefly so. We arrived at our baggage carousel at Heathrow, and within five minutes, two out of three of us had our […]

Post» Successful Travel Writing: 7 Tips for Working on the Road

Posted: April 18, 2011 Kimberly Juchnowski

Every writer, whether amateur or pro, has at some point dreamed about the amazing lifestyle of a travel writer. It’s rewarding already just to be able to make your living with your craft, and travel […]

Post» A Positive Lesson in Rejection

Posted: March 28, 2011 JoAnna Haugen

Rejection is a natural part of being a writer. Even those writers and authors who have gone on to achieve international success were, at one point or another, rejected. One of the differences between […]

Post» Finding Inspiration to Write About Far Off Places

Posted: February 21, 2011 Jessica Spiegel

Some of us have the good fortune of living in the place we love most in the world… … So that when it comes to writing about that place, all we have to do is […]

Post» Standing Out in the Crowd

Posted: February 7, 2011 Susan Farewell

Among us, right now, there could be a garage band as game-changing to the music world as the Beatles were. But chances are we’ll never hear a note they’ll play. Breaking out of the pack […]

Post» Q&A: Why Are My Article Pitches Getting Rejected?

Updated: Sep 7^th, 2011Posted: January 31, 2011 Trisha Miller

Welcome to another installment of Ask The Editor! Today I cull once again through the copious questions from my email inbox, and pull another one that I hear frequently enough that it belongs in […]

Post» Understanding the Stumbleupon Monster

Posted: January 17, 2011 Brendan van Son

New writers and bloggers ask me all the time how I’ve used social media to advance my reach since the launch of Brendan’s Adventures last year. I constantly tell them that I treat social media […]

Post» How to Sabotage Your Social Networking Efforts

Posted: January 10, 2011 Trisha Miller

Are you using Facebook and Twitter to promote your self as a travel writer? Every so often I get an email from someone who asks me why I haven’t responded to their Facebook friend request, […]