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Travel Writing Blog: Tips and Advice for Travel Writers
Travel Writing On Location is a community for travel writers. Whether you’re a travel blogger, professional travel journalist or want to learn how to become a travel writer, you’ll find tips and advice you can use to grow your career. Check out the blogs below for advice and interviews with editors and successful travel journalists. Travel Writing On Location is hosted by Go World Travel, a digital publication for world travelers. Feel free to look around in the menu above.
Taming the Editor on My Shoulder
Editing your work is good, but over editing can hold you back and stifle your creative energy. Here are some tips for editing your travel writing.
Where Will the Road Lead You This Year? Life as a Travel Writer
Being a travel journalist may never provide fat checks or a cushy retirement, but it offers riches of different kind.
7 Things You Should Know About Travel Writing
Travel writing is an amazing profession. After all, you can get paid to travel the world. But it takes hard work and know-how to be a success. Here’s what you need to know about travel writing.
How Do You Land That First Travel Writing Assignment?
It’s an age-old question that many aspiring travel writers have asked — how do I get a writing assignment if I don’t have any writing clips yet? Here’s how to get that first travel writing assignment.
3 Tips for Aspiring Travel Writers
We caught up with travel writer Sharon Spence Lieb long enough to ask for her three top pieces of advice for new travel writers. Here’s what she said.
Interview with Travel Writer/Editor Linda DuVal
Q&A with former travel editor and travel journalist Linda DuVal.
Travel Writing Interview: UK Journalist Elayne Jude
Based in the UK, Elayne Jude is a writer and photographer covering travel, foreign affairs and women at war. This curious blend of topics works well for Elayne. Here’s what she had to say.
How a Travel Writing Workshop Changed Everything
Travel writing looked easy, but my efforts got me nowhere. Then I took a writing workshop. It turns out that travel writing has its own norms, procedures and techniques. Having someone explain this to me made all the difference.
The Travel Stories We Don’t Write
When a travel writer goes on assignment, the goal is create a publishable piece for the public. But often, there’s a backstory to the journey, another travel story that goes unwritten.
“A wise man travels to discover himself.” — James Russell Lowell
Travel reminds us to stop and notice the world’s splendor and the wonder of Mother Nature. It forces us to look in awe at the world around us.
Interview with Elizabeth Hansen: Travel Editor and Online Publisher
Travel has played an important role in this writer’s life and career. Here’s what California-based travel editor Elizabeth Hansen had to say about the business of travel writing.
