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Enhance Your Writing

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 […]

Enhance Your Writing

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. […]

General News & Info

Post» Nine Questions That Travel Writers Need To Ask Themselves

Posted: March 5, 2019 Roy Stevenson

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

Post» On Being A Flexible Freelance Travel Writer

Posted: November 26, 2018 Roy Stevenson

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 […]

Getting Started

Post» How Assumptions Erode Your Travel Writing Success

Posted: August 20, 2018 Roy Stevenson

Over the past several years of working with novice travel writers, I’ve noticed they tend to make a lot of incorrect assumptions about how things work in freelance writing. These assumptions cost them assignments with […]

First Person Experience

Post» A Clash of Titans: Digital Versus Print Travel Media

Updated: Aug 19th, 2018Posted: January 22, 2018 Roy Stevenson

As a travel writer for print media, I’m often asked by other freelancers how digital media has affected the print travel magazine business. That’s a fair question. DEFINITIONS Print travel media consists primarily of travel […]

Getting Started

Post» Your Pre-Travel Planning Should Include This….

Updated: Jan 21st, 2018Posted: December 20, 2017 Roy Stevenson

Over the past couple of years, I’ve received several desperate requests from novice travel writers, …. ….asking me to help them round up some last-minute assignments, so they can request complimentary accommodations, meals, entry to […]

First Person Experience

Post» 5 Tips for Wannabe Travel Bloggers

Posted: October 26, 2017 Penny Watne

Do you envision yourself on a distant shore, documenting your daily adventures, while at the same time, funding your dream lifestyle? Many people are finding that becoming a travel writer is an attainable goal. But […]

First Person Experience

Post» We’re Travel Writers, Not Critics. (And A Few Other Shocking Travel Writing Home Truths)

Posted: October 12, 2017 Roy Stevenson

Some travel writers seem to forget that we’re travel writers first and foremost, and not critics. Our job, as travel journalists, is to show and describe our destinations to our readers. We should be painting […]

Enhance Your Writing

Post» Top 9 Travel Writing Mistakes

Posted: 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 […]

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