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Watch the Beginning of Our Business Fundamentals Series for Free–For a Limited Time!
Our new VIP (Very Insightful Professionals) Coaching Program is different than anything you’ve ever experienced.
- Most programs that say they offer group coaching are really just doing Q&As with limited value past saving you the time googling answers to your questions.
- We specifically focus on helping you build a flourishing life AND business, because the science is pretty clear—you can’t have one without the other. (More on that in our upcoming webinar!) https://www.dreamoftravelwriting.com/flourishing-business-webinar/
- Our program centers around the closest thing to an MBA for writers that I’ve ever found: our business fundamental flows. Unlike the grind of an MBA, though, they’re designed to make your life easier 🙂
Join Us for Free Travel Writing Lessons on Putting Together Celebrity Favorites, Postcard, Diary Pieces and Guide Feature
In the two years since we began running regular one-hour travel writing classes, we’ve covered more than 80 topics, including:
- how to land free trips
- how to get paid really, really well for your writing
- how to get on magazine editors’ good sides
- how to navigate every step of the process to land travel content marketing work, including phone calls and proposals
- how to keep your hourly rate down so your bank account goes up
- how to get work done on the road
- how to write, step-by-step, 15 different types of travel articles
- how to land guidebook and other traditional publishing deals
You can grab access to all of our past webinars (and a ton of other resources you can’t find anywhere else) with a subscription to our Dream Buffet or grab them one-by-one when you need them in our On-Demand Webinar Library for a set with the video, audio, transcript, and slides.
But we also air a free replay of one of our travel writing classes each and every weekday.
Should I Set Up a Care Package for You? Last Chance to Join Our Anniversary Celebrations
Today is the last day (you can read more about why exactly that is in our FAQ below) to grab our landmark workshop on the state of freelance travel writing for magazines and how to master the pitching process.
If it’s not for you, no worries! Have a great weekend!
For those of you who think, as one writer recently wrote me, this could be exactly what you need to take your travel writing career to the next stage, we’ve compiled some answers to some questions we’ve been receive about the workshop itself and the opportunity to grab the replay and associated goodies sent to your house.
These are some of the concepts we dove into deeply during the event:
- the exact mechanics of how, when, and what to say to follow up on your pitches
- why editors are never stealing your idea—and what to do if you think they are
- exactly which portion of the magazine industry has the best rates right now for the writing you want to be doing
- how **exactly** with multiple workshopped examples to put together a pitch in five minutes
- and much more about the state of the magazine industry today and how to excel in it
Don’t Let a Fear of Pulling Together Long Articles Hold You Back One More Day
There are some very extreme views on writing feature-length stories out there.
Some of you:
- have been in this business a long time and feel like feature stories are the only thing worth your time in terms of both money and interest
- have not been in the business-side of travel writing at all, but want to jump in only writing features, because you’re only interested in long-form writing and storytelling, not short, informational pieces
- are absolutely petrified of even pitching a long story, because you don’t know how you’ll fill up the word count
- feel very firmly that you will never write features because narrative writing is just not your thing
Features are a very polarizing issue, and there’s no single reason why.
How Can You Tell if an Out-of-the-Blue PR Request is Legit?
Welcome to a new feature here at Dream of Travel Writing–the Monday Mailbag! We often get questions from readers, folks in our accountability group, or coaching program members that we think would apply to a lot of you.
Now, with permission, agony-aunt-style, we’ll be sharing a new one with you each Monday. If you have a question you’d like to see included, please send it to us at questions [at] dreamoftravelwriting.com and make sure to include a line saying we have permission to reprint your question.
On to the tricky travel writing questions!
Five Magazines Looking for Expat Profiles
Welcome to the Friday Freebie Five, a new weekly feature on Dream of Travel Writing’s Six Figure Travel Writer blog.
Each week, we comb our Travel Magazine Database to bring you five magazine sections open to freelancers around a theme–front-of-book trend pieces, long-form first-person features, short narrative postcards–to inspire your pitches.
Announcing Dream of Travel Writing’s 12 Days of Christmas
When traveling for work or leisure, I’ve often found one of the most beautiful and revelatory parts of new cultures centers around their religions. Italy’s transcendent cathedral architecture and Renaissance paintings. Bali’s towering stone temples and daily flower-filled offerings lining the streets. India’s multi-day, technicolor wedding festivities.