When asking each and every retreat attendee what they see as the greatest obstacle to advancing their travel writing career – as I do on every retreat I go to – some version of “life gets in the way” is the most common response I hear.
This beginners guide to travel writing intends to answer your most basic questions and get you pointed in the right direction.
Finding and maintaining a healthy momentum can be a challenge for all of us travel writers, no matter how experienced we are at it.
For this month’s Roadmap, I’m sharing with you one of my essential processes for increasing my travel writing income: creating a database of potential publications.
For this month’s Roadmap, though, we’re talking about the business of travel writing—specifically getting organized.
In order to maintain quality of your work, it’s time to learn how to prioritize the trips that best fit your lifestyle and your needs.
Goal: Get on a consistent pitching schedule so you have a consistent publication schedule (and hopefully also a consistent stream of income).
Too often writers have told me that they don’t know why they need to belong to a professional group. Others ask me why I belong to so many organizations. Let me give you eight good reasons.
It’s a quick, easy and effective way of gathering the information you need as a writer to complete your story.
Start receiving more pitches and press releases from public relations and marketing professionals to find more and better story ideas, improve your efficiency, and land press trips.