How to Get Paid to Travel Series: Writing
Get Paid to Travel! Become a Travel Writer Travel writing is quite possibly the best non-job in the world. It's fun. It gives you an excuse to travel -- and get paid to travel. It can bring with it instant "celebrity" status. (Just tell somebody that you write articles for magazines... and they'll start looking [...]
Get Paid to Travel: Can anybody be a travel writer?
Let me give it to you straight: I think anybody can be a travel writer.
9 Hometown Things You Can Get Paid to Write About...
When you're trolling for story ideas near home, it pays to look past the obvious. Sure, you can sell articles about the best restaurants to eat in or the best hotels to stay in. But you'll be going head-to-head with similar pieces submitted by other writers.
Editors are always in the market for articles that focus on subjects a little less-obvious. For instance, you could get paid to write about any of these more-unusual topics:
Get Paid to Travel: How to Approach an Editor
How to Approach an Editor: Three Simple Keys for Crafting a Letter an Editor Will Read
Don't Hesitate: Little clips lead to big clips
I'm a procrastinator. I'm also a nervous person... contacting an editor -- even by email -- makes my palms sweat. But that hasn't stopped me from convincing editors to pay me for articles. And it shouldn't stop you, either. If you like to write, but you hesitate -- maybe because you're nervous, like me... or [...]
Resend or Repackage? How to Get Paid Twice for One Article
A few tips from professional travel writer Jennifer Stevens, on how to get paid twice for one article.
No Poodles. No False Teeth. No Travel Articles.
Eight reasons why good articles get unwanted rejection slips. Don't be disheartened if you're still waiting to see your name in print. If you're both professional and persistent (and learn from your mistakes), your hard work WILL pay off eventually.
If It Bleeds, It Leads...
How to Submit Cover Stories and Break into Large Newspapers.
How to Win an Editor with Your Headline
Headlines are designed to grab your attention and draw you in. Yet most travel writers all but ignore this aspect of their stories when they send them to an editor. Here are a few tips from freelance writer Jennifer Stevens on how to increase your article sales.
How to Reach an Editor
You should always submit your story or your query for your story with a well-targeted headline on it. You want it to catch the editor's eye and show him, immediately, what your article is about. It's one of the most effective ways to distinguish yourself from the bulk of other writers also submitting material.
Your Next By-line: In-flight Mags and Alumni Pubs
What's interesting about in-flights is that while the major airline publications are hard to break into, the commuter airlines aren't as forbidding. And a by-line in one makes for a very attractive clip -- not only will it be full-color and glossy, but you can also bank the prestige of saying you were published by an in-flight magazine.
Three Tricks for Breaking into Newspapers
Three Smart Ways to Sell Your Story to a Newspaper's Travel Editor Open any newspaper's travel section and you're bound to see articles picked up off a wire. They're easy to spot. Under the by-line they'll say something like "Los Angeles Times" (though you're reading the Denver Post). It's not that editors don't want other [...]
3 Ways to Repackage (and Resell) an Article
Once you've invested the time and energy in researching, writing, and editing an article, it's a pity to get just one sale out of it. Now, if you maintained some rights to the piece, then you can resell it as-is in non-competing markets. (We've written about this option before. Go here for an article by [...]
Five Query Letter Strategies That Work
Arguably the most important writing you'll do when you're working on an article isn't your text at all -- it's the query letter you write to sell it. You've got about five seconds to catch an editor's attention. That means you must use your first two sentences wisely. Don't waste them by introducing yourself, telling [...]
