Getting Started
Pitching – You’re Doing it Wrong
These days my inbox is inundated with some of the worst queries ever. If you’re pitching article ideas but getting rejections (or not getting any responses at all), then this post is for you — […]
Get Published
Enhance Your Writing
Don’t Let Feedback On Your Writing Sting Your Ego
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 […]
First Person Experience
Experience Counts in Travel Writing
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 […]
First Person Experience
One of My Most Potent Travel Writing Secrets: Research Before You Pitch
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 […]
Enhance Your Writing
Can We Make a Living and Support Ourselves Solely from Freelance Travel Writing?
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. […]
First Person Experience
Now Is the Golden Age of Travel Writing*
*If you own your own website. Travel writing has never been a lucrative business. The glamorous view which people had of the profession ensured that there were always more people who wanted to do it […]
General News & Info
Nine Questions That Travel Writers Need To Ask Themselves
There’s plenty of advice floating around on the Internet about what prerequisites you need to be a travel writer. I’ve certainly contributed to this pool of information. For this post, I’d like to toss out […]
First Person Experience
On Being A Flexible Freelance Travel Writer
Freelance travel writing is definitely not for people who expect the freelance world to conform to them. A willingness to be flexible by adjusting our approaches, writing styles, topics, and sales and marketing techniques, is […]
First Person Experience
Is There A Single Element For Predicting Travel Writing Success?
I’m often asked by novice travel writers if there’s a single predictive skill we can consistently harness to get our travel stories published? They ask this because if there is ONE single skill they can […]
Enhance Your Writing
Weird, Eerie, and Strange Places I’ve Visited on Travel Writing Assignments
Travel writing can take us to some bizarre places. I’m always on the lookout for extraordinary places to visit and write about. Here are a few of the most unusual places I’ve covered, all in […]
