Learning From Failure: Find Freelance Writing Success
By the time I’d been the travel editor for The Denver Post for 9 years, I was ready for a change. For those three years prior to my leaving in August 2014, though, I had spent considerable time and energy trying to save the Travel section and my role in it. As anyone...
Great Escape Radio Episode 38: Find something to build
“Travel writing and photography help memorialize chunks of your life.” –Lori Allen For more information on how you can get started with travel writing, visit: dev.greatescapepublishing.com/start/travelwriting. Host, Jody Maberry is joined by Director, Lori Allen, to...
New Writer Has 45 Published Articles In 8 Months
As I sat in the seats of the 2015 Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in Denver, I had doubts of my success. That little voice of “You can’t be a travel writer because you have no training” kept rearing its ugly little head. The article queries I’d sent out over the...
7 Tools For Travel Writing Success
There are a few items that are essential for every emerging travel writer, and had I known about them when I was starting out, it would have made life easier and my progress swifter. A couple of the things I have listed here are obvious, but there are one or two that...
Secret To Success: Write Your Own Story
I’ve cried at least three times in the last four months... The first was sitting atop the red sand dunes in Namibia. The beauty was overwhelming. I felt blessed but undeserving and wished someone was with me to feel what I was feeling. The second time was over...