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If I Can Do It, You Can Do It!

July 21, 2020 Roy Stevenson

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 […]

Getting Started

Pitching – You’re Doing it Wrong

July 7, 2020 Trisha Miller

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 — […]

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Enhance Your Writing

Outdated Travel Writing “Rules” That Should Be Broken

June 16, 2020 Roy Stevenson

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 […]

First Person Experience

One of My Most Potent Travel Writing Secrets: Research Before You Pitch

February 13, 2020 Roy Stevenson

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

What Novice Travel Writers Need to Learn . . . Fast!

November 18, 2019 Roy Stevenson

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 […]

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Sales & Marketing are NOT Dirty Words!

October 21, 2019 Roy Stevenson

The marketing component of freelance writing scares away many writers. Most novice writers are clueless at marketing themselves and their work, and worse, fear it like the plague. Other writers “just want to write”, believing […]

First Person Experience

Focus Your Query Letters

September 16, 2019 Roy Stevenson

Many aspiring travel writers never get around to sending out pitches because they can’t quite figure out how to write a query letter. Writing a marketable query is especially difficult in travel writing because beginners […]

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 […]

Getting Started

How Assumptions Erode Your Travel Writing Success

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 […]

Getting Started

It’s Not Just All Travel Articles – Part III

October 14, 2009 Amandah Blackwell

This is the last – but most important – of this three-part series about the writing travel writers need to do in addition to travel writing. The focus of this week’s blog post is the […]

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