The Four-Legged Stool: How to Construct A Saleable Travel Article
Copywriter Krista Jones explains, below, how taking “The Four-Legged Stool” approach to your writing will help you come out with a highly-saleable story.
Three Tips For Submitting Successful Query Letters
This week, we’re talking about techniques to help you sell your travel articles faster and easier. And, today, I’d like to focus on the query letter – the letter you send to editors pitching your story to their publication.
How Much Money Can You Make as a Copywriter?
We're switching gears this week to talk about copywriting -- a way for you to use your travel writing skills to bank six-figures a year. Jennifer Stevens is a copywriter. Scroll below for what Jen thinks is the key to getting started as a copywriter. If you can tell a good story, she says, you can do this.
Day 2 in San Francisco: Quick Tips for Great Story Starters
Top tips from our guest editors today in San Francisco... what need to do to grab your reader’s attention, you need a compelling lead—something that draws your reader in.
Workshop Attendee, Caren Abdela, Landed Two Articles in International Living. Here’s How…
Read from one of your fellow readers, Caren Abdela, how she walked away from a six-figure income and how she got started as a travel writer right after she attended our Ultimate Travel Writers workshop in Chicago last year.
Getting Started Locally: How to Write about Your Hometown for Free Perks and Profit
Read from Jennifer Stevens, start thinking about your hometown and articles you might write about sights and attractions near you, it’s easiest to get started when you start locally.
Live the Dream… Become a Travel Writer
Read from Steenie Harvey, learn a few things you could do in a town near you with story ideas you can sell to magazines editors, newspapers, and websites.
Travel Like a King… Without the Royal Budget
Read from Roy Stevenson about his travels from one spa to the next, reviewing accommodation at some of the nicest lodges in the U.S., spa treatments, meals, and more.
Pitch Your Travel Articles to Non-Travel Publications
Learn about the endless types of travel stories you could write and pitch to both travel and non-travel publications...
When Travels Go Awry: How to Turn the Unexpected into an Article
Read tips about how to make an article out of an unplanned, unexpected situation.
How to Write an Attention-Grabbing Lede
Read some tips from Editor Kyle Wagner on how to keep your readers hooked on your articles.
Ask this Question to Craft a Strong Article Intro
Read tips from Denver Post Travel Editor Kyle Wagner on what will 'hook' readers to your article.
Five Travel Writing Predictions for 2012
Read Jennifer Stevens', the International Living Magazine Executive Editor, advice and predictions for this years travel writers.
The only men I let spit in my face
Read freelance travel writer Steenie Harvey's tips on how to write an eye-catching headline!
Japan’s Tourism Agency Plans to Give Away up to 10,000 Free Flights
Japan’s Tourism Agency is planning to give away up to 10,000 free flights to Japan. If Japan’s parliament approves it, and you’re selected, you could see yourself whisked off to Japan as early as next summer. Click here to read more...
