All Posts in Category: Coaching For Professional Writers
Our Values Here at Dream of Travel Writing
Last month, we had an extremely productive and illuminating team retreat for Dream of Travel Writing in London in advance of World Travel Market, our annual London travel writing workshop, our first weekend-long workshop at our retreat center in the Catskills, and our first freelance/small-business mastermind event.
One of the most important things that came out of that time was enumerating our mission both in terms of what is currently lacking in travel writing education that we would like to offer and the way we want to go about our business.
Established Travel Writers Share Their 11 Favorite Pieces of Travel Writing Advice
We’ve started hosting focus groups around the globe to tap into the pitching, writing, and organizational processes of established writers so we can share them with you in a series of white papers.
To get the ball rolling, I wanted to share words of wisdom on travel writing success from the writers who joined us in New York City for our first focus group this fall.
25 Ways to Move Your Travel Writing Career Forward Today—In 15 Minutes or Less
A few years ago, I came across the idea of microactions: things you can do in incredible short amounts of time (they focus on seven minutes) to move your career forward, whether in terms of networking, getting organized, increasing revenue, or clearing your head to be more productive when you dive back into work.
Why You Don’t Need To Start with $20 Articles and Work Your Way Up
People often ask me how I ended up writing The Six-Figure Travel Writing Road Map, and the answer actually relates to one of my favorite journalists and writing bloggers.
How 10 Travel Writers Parlay Micro Niches into Major Assignments
Earlier this week, we talked about:
- how having other interests besides travel can give you a leg up breaking into travel writing
- why it’s important to write about those interests in a travel-related context, not just for magazines in those fields
- how easy it is to look at your own life and see what interests you can already mine
Today, I want to widen your view of what these travel research interests can be. We are looking at 10 real, working travel writers who aren’t the Tim Cahills or the folks who have necessarily written books on how to be a travel writer. They are just regular people who work with their stable of editors, pay their mortgages, and make a solid living travel writing.