Is Your Travel Blog Actually Serving Its Purpose?
Welcome to a new feature here at Dream of Travel Writing–the Monday Mailbag! We often get questions from readers, folks in our accountability group, or coaching program members that we think would apply to a lot of you.
Now, with permission, agony-aunt-style, we’ll be sharing a new one with you each Monday. If you have a question you’d like to see included, please send it to us at questions [at] dreamoftravelwriting.com and make sure to include a line saying we have permission to reprint your question.
On to the tricky travel writing questions!
Why Interviews Are Secretly the Answer to Everything You’re Struggling with in Your Travel Writing
No matter what the question is, there is a recurring refrain that I hear from freelance travel writers struggling to earn their desired income.
Whether the question is:
- how often are you sending pitches?
- why aren’t you sending more pitches?
- how long does it take you to write a pitch?
- what is keeping you income low if you already have a full load of clients they have?
- what is keeping you from writing for bigger and better outlets
It always comes back to time.
What Are You Actually Doing During Your “Writing” Time?
Welcome to a new feature here at Dream of Travel Writing–the Monday Mailbag! We often get questions from readers, folks in our accountability group, or coaching program members that we think would apply to a lot of you.
Now, with permission, agony-aunt-style, we’ll be sharing a new one with you each Monday. If you have a question you’d like to see included, please send it to us at questions [at] dreamoftravelwriting.com and make sure to include a line saying we have permission to reprint your question.
On to the tricky travel writing questions!
The Key to Recurring Income Writing for Magazines: The Editors Stable
As part of a series of questions on our coaching program, I received this inquiry over email earlier this week that I know affects many of you:
“How quickly can people make a regular income in the freelance travel writing world? I’d really like to quit my part-time job so that I can dive into travel writing full time .”
Can You Ask Travel Magazine Editors to Send You Their Editorial Calendars?
Welcome to a new feature here at Dream of Travel Writing–the Monday Mailbag! We often get questions from readers, folks in our accountability group, or coaching program members that we think would apply to a lot of you.
Now, with permission, agony-aunt-style, we’ll be sharing a new one with you each Monday. If you have a question you’d like to see included, please send it to us at questions [at] dreamoftravelwriting.com and make sure to include a line saying we have permission to reprint your question.
On to the tricky travel writing questions!
How Can You Tell if an Out-of-the-Blue PR Request is Legit?
Welcome to a new feature here at Dream of Travel Writing–the Monday Mailbag! We often get questions from readers, folks in our accountability group, or coaching program members that we think would apply to a lot of you.
Now, with permission, agony-aunt-style, we’ll be sharing a new one with you each Monday. If you have a question you’d like to see included, please send it to us at questions [at] dreamoftravelwriting.com and make sure to include a line saying we have permission to reprint your question.
On to the tricky travel writing questions!
How Most People Get it Wrong with Cover Letters for Online Ads and Letters of Introduction for Travel Trade Magazines
Writing an LOI for a travel trade magazine bears a lit of resemblance to writing a cover letter for a job application (or, more accurately, the email you send when you respond to an ad for a writing gig).
But, there’s one unfortunate thing about how most people approach both of those forms of communication.
The “prevailing wisdom” is that this email is meant to be a sort of summary of your resume, highlighting relevant skills or experience so that the hiring manager can decide if they should even bother to read your resume.
And when it comes to applying for job-jobs, I often find perfectly, if not highly, qualified applicants don’t get past this step.
How to Break into Travel Trade Magazines for Recurring Work Opportunities
We talk a lot here at Dream of Travel Writing about how you need to set up solid streams of recurring income to make it in this profession.
Checks from big glossy magazines can take years (seriously) to come. And spending hours putting together a pitch, working out the details, and nailing a publication’s style for one single assignment from a magazine is simply not worth your time.
How to Build Serious Business Partnerships at Travel Conferences
I’m so excited to share this with you.
Since I heard it, I have woven it into every workshop I’ve done and conference talk I’ve given.
This Week’s Free Freelance Travel Writing Class: How to Use to Travel Magazine Database to Power Up Your Pitches
So many travel article ideas sound great.
Not just in theory.
They really sound interesting. When you tell them to your friends, they all want you to explain more.
And yet when you send them to editors, you hear nothing.