As I enter my second full year of travel writing, it never ceases to amaze me what sells. I found I can dig way back into my past and write stories of my time in Alaska – in the 1970s, I spent nearly a year on Kodiak Island and one year in the Bering Strait […]
It’s hardly a secret that a crucial key to success in travel writing is staying motivated. Motivation isn’t magical, though. You can’t wave a wand and make it appear. But, there are definitely some vital strategies I’ve found helpful in my two years of writing – resulting in 170 published stories. Use inspirational quotes Inspirational […]
Every year we follow up with eight travel writers who are using our programs to travel farther, faster, and better than they could as typical tourists. This year’s video includes some updates on last year’s stories as well as a few more. Check it out…
They say the early bird catches the worm, but the only worm I ever seem to find is at the bottom of a bottle of tequila. When I’m on the road, I have a great ability to rise early, but as for the rest of the time – 8 a.m. is usually early enough. One […]
Yes, being a travel writer is as good as it sounds. As an established freelancer, I’ve now been on many fully paid-for press trips, all over the world. Most recently, I traveled to Switzerland, Germany, and Austria to ski the Alps with a small group of North American journalists. Here’s a look at a typical […]
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“People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou For more about how you can get started with travel writing today, visit: greatescapepublishing.com/travelwriting. This week on Great Escape Radio, host Jody Maberry and Director, Lori Allen, discuss trends for 2017. Lori shares her thoughts on what […]
“Travel writing and photography help memorialize chunks of your life.” –Lori Allen For more information on how you can get started with travel writing, visit: greatescapepublishing.com/start/travelwriting. Host, Jody Maberry is joined by Director, Lori Allen, to talk about life… Is life too short? Or is it something that’s long and requires a long term plan? […]
As I sat in the seats of the 2015 Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in Denver, I had doubts of my success. That little voice of “You can’t be a travel writer because you have no training” kept rearing its ugly little head. The article queries I’d sent out over the preceding nine months had mostly […]
There are a few items that are essential for every emerging travel writer, and had I known about them when I was starting out, it would have made life easier and my progress swifter. A couple of the things I have listed here are obvious, but there are one or two that are perhaps less […]
