Two Famous Copywriting Tricks You Can Use to Get an Editor's Attention
By Tom Schueneman, Editor, The Traveler in San Francisco, CA I'm writing from Florida City, near the southeast entrance to Everglades National Park, where I'll spend the day exploring before I move on down through the Florida Keys. This next week I get to do what I love -- explore new places, write down my [...]
SPECIAL SECTION: Bahamas Workshop - Day One
Bahamas Report: Day 1 -- Don't Go Fishing Dear Reader, I can see palm trees and blue sky through the windows. It's a travel writing perk you can't underestimate, particularly if you live in a place where it's already snowing, this time of year. Our first-ever photography and guidebook writing workshop is underway on Paradise [...]
Editors Buy Practical Advice: Sell Your Insights on the Art of Travel
Surely you've learned some lessons in all the travel you've done. No doubt you've picked up a trick or two along the way that make your trips more enjoyable or efficient or affordable now than they were years back -- before you were so wise. I'm certain you've got ideas, advice, and guidance to share [...]
The Simple Secret to Giving Editors What They Want
I'm sitting in a green-and-yellow striped club chair in the lobby of the Delray Beach Marriott in Southern Florida. I'd be perched poolside, but it's pouring out. The palms on the beach across the street are whipping in the wind. Good thing I'm not on vacation. In fact, I'm here to teach a few pointers [...]
Free Lodging and Lobster Dinners: An Interview a Travel Writer
AN INTERVIEW WITH TRAVEL WRITER JEANINE BUCKLEY TWWTT: Before we get started, Jeanine, why don't you tell us a little bit about your background and what made you decide to turn to travel writing. JEANINE: My background is in international marketing. While studying a semester in Paris, I fell in love with France and wanted [...]
More Bylines Mean More Checks: Two Tips for Selling More Travel Articles
By freelance travel writer and photographer, David Morgan Back in the days when I worked in the editorial offices at International Living, it was my job to rewrite articles to make them publishable. In those times, information on living abroad was sparse. We'd take poorly written articles and rework them - so long as the [...]
How to Write Humerous Travel Stories: Seven Ways to Ensure Something Goes Wrong On Every Trip
By freelance travel writer, Stan Sinberg There's a whole lot of travel writing I can't, for the life of me, do: I get bored silly writing long, adjective-laden descriptions of hotel rooms I've stayed in or of restaurants where I've eaten. Historical facts cloud my head, and I could barely tell you the difference between [...]
Understanding Writer's Guidelines: How Travel Writers Get Paid
Can you make a full-time living as a travel writer? Yes, you can. Some established travel writers we know log annual earnings of $50,000 or more working full time. Can you get super-rich working strictly as a freelance travel writer? Probably not. This kind of writing is more about the lifestyle, the freedom, the travel [...]
Writer's Guidelines Decoded: 22 Terms Every Writer Should Know
By Freelance Writer, Roy Barnes Every publication has guidelines that answer the questions freelancers like you have about things like article length... departments... style... and so on. Last week, we talked about where to find these guidelines. (http://www.thetravelwriterslife.com/2005/08/issue-77/) This week, let's take a look at some of the terms you'll typically find in Writer's Guidelines... [...]
Where to Find Your Next Paycheck: 853,000 Places to Get Published
By Freelance Writer, Roy Barnes The first step to getting an article published -- and the most important one -- is to find the publications best-suited for your story. If you get your audience right at the start, chances are you'll have a much easier time landing assignments and getting paid. So that's what we'll [...]
