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Six Easy Ways to Get Useful Feedback Without Taking a Class or Joining a Writer's Group

Unless you’re in a writer’s group that meets regularly to critique each other’s work, you simply type and pray. When editors buy your work, that’s one positive sign that your words are up to snuff.

Here are six techniques I use to improve my travel stories. You’ll find these techniques easy to implement and very useful for improving your writing over time.

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Here's Who Joined Us in Charleston SC for Our Travel Writing & Photography Retreat and Our Marketing Master Class For Travel Writers

. . . has lived in Scandinavia and traveled throughout the U.S., Europe and China. She worked in public relations and marketing for 20 years before becoming a special education teacher.

Donna is an Alaska Travel Expert, certified by the Alaska Travel Industry Association (ATIA) and a member of ATIA. She’s also the author of travel website Homer by the Bay (.com)

Her blog is about the ongoing discovery of Homer, Alaska — the enchanting and beautiful place where she lives. It’s about all the things that make this place a treasure and an amazing place to visit and call home.

Donna enjoys new experiences, reading, diving down the research rabbit hole, and sharing the joy of exploring new places. And she's one of our biggest fans. At the Charleston workshop Donna showed me her file with my ten travel writing eBooks — she has them all!

Thank you for attending our workshops, Donna. You traveled the farthest of all the participants!

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Pitch Travel Write: Most Requested Links About Dreaming Up New Travel Story Ideas

It takes some groundwork to become savvy at recognizing and mining gold nugget travel story ideas. A huge factor in getting your story ideas published is the quality of your ideas. While this may seem self-evident, finding an interesting story to pitch is a daunting task for novice freelance writers. 
 


So where, and how, do travel writers start their quest for a salable story?  Here are 6 tips to help you:

Story Ideas that Sell

For novice freelance writers, trying to figure out what story to pitch to an editor is a daunting task. Because of inexperience, you have no frame of reference.  Often, beginners lack confidence in their story ideas. So where do you start?

If you want to boost your bylines, try my winning system.  These seven techniques can be used to constantly generate marketable ideas:

My Winning System for Travel Story Ideas

The beauty of travel writing is that you can write an article about almost every aspect of your travels and find a home for it somewhere. Editors get tired of being pitched the same kind of roundup story. They see it all the time and it’s not what they’re looking for anymore.  They are looking for new ideas and fresh perspectives.

This page will give you some idea of the types of travel stories you can write and sell:

Travel Stories to Help You Find Your Niche

MORE RESOURCES FOR TRAVEL WRITERS

Featured Book of the Month:

How to Land Press Trips and FAM Tours

Since starting my freelance travel writing career, I’ve been on more than 200 press trips & Fam tours in over 25 countries. Places like Belgium, Wales, England, France, Germany, New Zealand, Bali, all over the U.S.A., and many other exotic and exciting destinations.

I'm telling you this not to show off but because you too can get regular press trip & fam tour invitations.

Books about travel writing might mention that press trips are available to travel writers, but they fall woefully short when it comes to telling writers how to get press trip invitations. Most veteran travel writers keep this information to themselves.

My manual, How to Land Press Trips and Fam Tours, tells you exactly what you need to do to get invitations to press trips and Fam tours, and how to organize self-guided press trips.

This month only you can get $10 off if you use Promo Code PTDT at checkout. It's a great resource!

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Latest News on Workshops & eBooks

We’re already planning next year’s Travel Writing and Marketing workshops. We'll be holding them in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Santa Fe is a beautiful city of 83,000 people. It has plenty of good restaurants, art galleries, boutique shops, museums, and other attractions to keep travel journalists entertained for a solid week. We're looking forward to seeing you in Santa Fe!

New eBooks Coming Soon

We’re excited to announce that we’ve finished the draft of our ebook 500 Print Magazines That Want To Publish Your Travel Articles. Rather than revise our current eBook, “100 Print Magazines That Want To Publish Your Travel Articles” we decided to write an entirely new book.

We’ve tossed out the magazines that have folded since the 2016 edition and added in a whopping 450 NEW magazines (maybe more) to this eBook. Yes, you read that right!

We’ll have more details in an upcoming newsletter once we’ve done the finishing touches.

We’re about to publish another eBook to help you get your travel stories published. It’s called The Best of Roy’s Blogs: Roy’s Solutions for Selling More Travel Stories, Writing Better, and Earning More Money.

You need to have a lot of skills to be successful in the freelance travel writing game. In the past fifteen years I’ve been bombarded with hundreds of email questions about many aspects of travel writing. The blogs you’re about to read are my succinct answers to these urgent questions.

These blogs are gathered from my email replies, Facebook posts, LinkedIn posts, blogs, and newsletter editorials. They provide quality solutions in summary form to the myriad challenges travel writers face.

Even better, at the end of each blog I give you the link to a more detailed and comprehensive coverage of each topic so you can continue on to a more in-depth post on our website PitchTravelWrite.com.

Follow the advice dispensed in this eBook and you’ll earn more from your travel writing by selling more stories and improving your travel writing.

More information on both eBooks coming soon.

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Your next opportunity to attend these classes be in 2023. Our travel writing & marketing workshops are highly informative and a blast, socially.

Our travel writing & marketing workshops are highly informative and a blast, socially.

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Travel Writing Workshops 2023 Interest List

You can access the list of the top ten travel writing workshops from Travel Writers Exchange at the link below: Travel Writers Exchange workshop list: #1 Marketing Master Class

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