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Clinch More Assignments with Your Travel Writer’s Website

January 20, 2021 Roy Stevenson

Practically everyone these days needs a website, and this is especially important for freelance writers. Your writer’s website is meant to impress editors who may be interested in buying your stories. It’s a marketing tool […]

First Person Experience

Extracting Your Money from Deadbeat Editors and Publishers

December 17, 2020 Roy Stevenson

Most people think freelance writing—and travel writing in particular—is glamorous and exciting. Here, I give you an insight into the less glamorous side. One of the more disheartening problems I’ve encountered during my freelance writing […]

Enhance Your Writing

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

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 […]

First Person Experience

Travel Bloggers: You Could Be Sitting on a Gold Mine!

July 15, 2019 Roy Stevenson

I’ve met hundreds of travel bloggers during my freelance travel writing career. Almost without exception they tell me they hadn’t realized how much work would be involved in creating and maintaining a blog. And, most […]

Technology

5 Tech Tools for the Digital Nomad

December 21, 2015 Jess Signet

Digital nomadism, or the practice of using remote work as a means to support long-term travel, …is becoming increasingly more popular as more jobs are available to do over the internet. Whether your background is […]

Enhance Your Writing

Top 9 Travel Writing Mistakes

November 27, 2015 Linda Craig

It’s not where you go, but how you show readers… …what it was like once you got there that matters most. The most exotic of places can be made to look dull if travel writers […]

Enhance Your Writing

Weaving the “Travel” Into Your Stories

November 19, 2014 Wendy VanHatten

Passions. I have many of them. Two of them actually come together when I’m writing my mystery, suspense novels. Traveling, one passion, has always been a part of my life. Fortunate that Dad wanted my […]

Enhance Your Writing

5 Tips to Handle Media Hotel Inspections Like a Pro

June 2, 2014 Sarah Fazendin

Congrats, you’ve put together a full itinerary visiting a number of fabulous hotels. So now it’s time to get to work, reporting on these hotels and experiences through your unique lens in a way that […]

Getting Started

Pitching Your Travel Blog to a Hotel

February 17, 2014 Sarah Fazendin

In my previous post about pitching tourist boards I shared the one and only thing you must know before you start;… …Tourist boards work for the hotels, tour operators and other stakeholders in the destination.  […]

Getting Started

5 Insider Tips for Successfully Pitching Tourist Boards

January 23, 2014 Sarah Fazendin

Between the horrific events of 9/11, a struggling global economy, and the unknown impact of new technologies,… …the early-2000’s were not a good time for the travel industry. This is also right about the time […]

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