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Issue #244: Using Writers Guidelines to Sell Your Travel Stories February 25, 2020 |
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This Week's Featured PostUsing Writers Guidelines to Sell Your Travel StoriesAs a freelance writer, you are constantly submitting query letters to editors you’ve never met. What if there was a place to go to find out exactly what the editors want? As it turns out, there is! That's what writers guidelines are for. Writer's guidelines lay out in detail exactly what the editor is looking for. They give a set of rules that have been painstakingly compiled by the publisher or editor. The guidelines are meant to make their life easier and reading them improves your chances of being published. Writer's guidelines explain exactly what sort of articles the editor expects for his magazine. This saves the editor from suffering through off-target queries that waste time and drive them that little bit closer to editor’s purgatory.It's standard practice for freelance travel writers to review the guidelines for every magazine you query. Ideally you'll do this before you send your query letter. Although writers guidelines are straightforward, every magazine is different. Early on you'll spend a lot of time reading the guidelines. To recover some of the time you spend studying the guidelines, it's important to know how to use them to your advantage. And that's what the rest of this article is about. So read on to learn how to make the most of them.
Upcoming PostsMarch 4: Tim Cotroneo: Another PitchTravelWrite Success StoryMarch 11: Two Obstacles to Success in Travel Writing March 18: How To Break Into The Expat Magazine Market March 25: Query Letter Success Strategies Pitch Travel Write: Most Popular LinksBuilding Your Travel Writing PlatformBuilding a Professional Website for Freelance Writers 4 Reasons to Get Published Online on Travel Websites How to Get Testimonials from Editors and CVBs Inspirational Travel Quote of the Week
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Editorial: NZ Report. Explored Whangarei, stayed with niece, Emily. Back to Auckland. Drove to Cambridge to see sister, Penny. On to Napier, Hawkes Bay.
