Writing

Which Travel Writing Conference Is Right for Me?

With so many travel writing conferences, it’s difficult to know where to start. Isabel Eva Bohrer helps determine which is right for you.

Learn Travel Writing from Rolf Potts

In case you missed it, the inimitable Rolf Potts will be teaching a travel writer’s workshop this summer: Aspiring travel writers looking to hone their skills can learn from one of the best – Rolf Potts – at the Paris Writing Workshop, July 1 – 29, 2011. Join Rolf and other successful fiction and nonfiction [...]

8 International Artist Residencies that Welcome Travel Writers

Isabel Eva Bohrer explores eight international artist residencies that surprisingly enough welcome travel writers.

5 Common Mistakes of Beginning Travel Writers

“From linearity to superlatives to the “sin of omission” here are 5 common mistakes of beginning travel writers.” A great write-up courtesy of The Traveler’s Notebook.

Bad Writing: The Movie

This may well be the most anti-inspirational movies for aspiring travel writers. Enjoy.

Are You a Victim of Travel Writer’s Catch-22?

Turner Wright explores the Ultimate Travel Writer’s Catch-22 and how to achieve balance between time spent traveling and time spent writing.

You Can Write for ‘Travel + Leisure’ Southeast Asia

We just received an e-mail from a kind soul at Travel Blog Exchange that we thought worth passing along. Travel + Leisure are launching a new online venture targeting Southeast Asia and are looking for expert writers/bloggers with local knowledge: Hi, Got informed by Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia magazine (inc Hong Kong and Macau) [...]

An Interview with Rolf Potts, World Traveler and Author

An exclusive Q&A with Rolf Potts – world traveler and author of Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer.

7 Self-Publish Websites to Jumpstart Your Travel Publishing Career

Amanda Kendle explores seven websites to help jumpstart your travel writing or publishing career on the back of self-published works.

Writing For Free: Is It Worth It?

After more than a year in the freelance travel writing field, Eva Holland reflects on whether writing for free is “worth it” for other aspiring writers out there.

Travel Writing Essentials: The Pros and Cons of Writing Manuals

Eva Holland explores the ins and outs of writing manuals and why they’re so essential for aspiring travel writers.

A Guide to Better Travel Writing (Part 3): Insight and Inspiration from the Pros

Inspirational tips, quotes and insightful miscellany from some of the world’s best writers.

How to Write a Travel Journal That’s Worth Reading

Of course you’re keeping a travel journal, so why not craft one that you’ll actually read again?

A Guide to Better Travel Writing (Part 2): 20 Time-Tested Techniques and Essential Exercises

Twenty techniques and exercises to help streamline your writing process and curb writer’s block.

A Guide to Better Travel Writing (Part 1): 23 Essential Tips & Habits

Part 1 of our multi-part series on better travel writing: 23 great writing tips to bring out your inner muse.

3 Reasons To Buy Outside Magazine This Month: Bourdain, Grylls and Survival Thrills!

In an effort to save money and cut down on the crushing weight of daily information overload, I canceled all my magazine subscriptions this year. Oddly enough, I started getting Rolling Stone and the IKEA catalog on a regular basis for no apparent reason. In any event, I was positively stoked to find the cover [...]

Tom Robbins on Writing Your First (Travel) Novel

I received a pep e-mail today from the folks at National Novel Writing Month. A bit of advice on the craft of writing your first (travel) novel from Tom Robbins, a published author: When you sit down to begin that novel of yours, the first thing you might want to do is toss a handful [...]

$125 Travel Writing Contest

Just a quick note that Michael over at Traveling-Stories-Magazine.com sent me an e-mail to announce a $125 travel writing contest he’s hosting. What does it take to enter and win? Simply put, it takes a great, well written story. Some of your own promotion about your story always helps such as telling your friends, linking [...]

Be A Better Blogger By Breaking Your Wiki-ddiction

We bloggers are a lazy lot. It seems the de facto target to direct our readers for further info is always that treasure trove of truthiness: Wikipedia. The problem is that Wikipedia reads like stereo instructions – it’s unengaging and lifeless. Which better explains travel: Wikipedia or Rolf Potts’ Vagablogging? An even better example: Tim [...]

How To Make Sure No One Ever Reads Your Travel Blog

“If you’ve nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” That’s what mum always taught me. I think bloggers and travel writers could learn a bit from this. More appropriately: “If you don’t have anything good or worthwhile to say, don’t say anything at all.” What Not To Do Our Man in Granada had [...]

How to Put Your Blog on Auto-Pilot With Scheduled Posts

One of Wordpress’ best, little-known features is the ability to schedule posts to automatically publish to your travel blog on a future date.

On Travel Writing

Are you a writer and a traveler? Have you read Thomas Spurling’s post On Travel Writing? If not, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Read no further if you’d rather I not spoil the ending for you: Travel is nothing like writing. Anyone can write, and anyone can travel. These days you can fly to Ireland [...]