Join Us for Free Travel Writing Lessons on Interviews and Journalistic Details
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.
Each weekday at 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET (and 9am AEDT Tues-Sat), we show one webinar from our archives, rotating through all of them over the course of four months.
Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:
Monday, June 1, 5pm EST: Secrets to Succesful Interviews for Your Travel Articles
If you come into travel writing from a non-journalism background, the prospect of conducting official interviews can be daunting.
This week, we’ll cut past the anxiety and unpack exactly what you do and don’t need to know about doing interviews to flesh out your articles–and how learning to rock them can make your writing process much faster and more effective.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, June 1.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Tuesday, June 2, 5pm EST: Securing Interview Source to Make Your Stories Sing
I’m always shocked when I see people selling lists of contacts at tourism boards. They aren’t hard to find! And, you’d be shocked how many (important!) people are not only available, but very happy to speak with you for your articles. We’ll look at how to find the right people for each piece.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, June 2.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Wednesday, June 3, 5pm EST: Transforming Interviews into an Article (Real-Time Demo)
By popular request, in this webinar, I’ll walk through the process of organizing notes and quotations from interviews into a full reported feature article from start to finish. The entire webinar will be a live demo using real interviews.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, June 3.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Thursday, June 4, 5pm EST: Journalistic Detail and Why You Need It
Editors often say they want “researched” and “tight” “copy”, but what does that mean and how do you do it?
In this webinar, the beginning of a new craft-oriented series on uncovering journalistic detail in your field research and incorporating it into different types of pieces, we explore what journalistic detail is, why you need it, and how to know it when you see it.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, June 4.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Friday, June 5, 5pm EST: Weaving Journalistic Detail into Short Articles
In short, front-of-book pieces and in subsections of round-up features, the devil in the detail is choosing what to include from all of your research.
In this webinar, we explore how to use your magazine’s audience and the type of magazine section you’re writing as a lens to drastically simplify the agonizing decisions of what details to include, how much time to devote to them, and how to execute them from a writing perspective.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Friday, June 5.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Don’t be late! All the free replays start right on time, and the system isn’t able to accept late attendees.
You can read all about our free webinar replays and get answers to any questions you have on our comprehensive FAQ page, or grab any webinars you have missed in our On-Demand Webinar Library.