Join Us for Free Travel Writing Lessons on Mastering AP Style and Generating Article Ideas
In the two years since we began running regular one-hour travel writing classes, we’ve covered more than 80 topics, including:
- how to land free trips
- how to get paid really, really well for your writing
- how to get on magazine editors’ good sides
- how to navigate every step of the process to land travel content marketing work, including phone calls and proposals
- how to keep your hourly rate down so your bank account goes up
- how to get work done on the road
- how to write, step-by-step, 15 different types of travel articles
- how to land guidebook and other traditional publishing deals
You can grab access to all of our past webinars (and a ton of other resources you can’t find anywhere else) with a subscription to our Dream Buffet or grab them one-by-one when you need them in our On-Demand Webinar Library for a set with the video, audio, transcript, and slides.
But we also air a free replay of one of our travel writing classes each and every weekday.
Each weekday at 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET (and 9am AEDT Tues-Sat), we show one webinar from our archives, rotating through all of them over the course of four months.
Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:
Monday, March 16, 5pm EST: Mastering Style at a Sentence by Sentence Level
Continuing the groundwork we laid in last week’s call on AP style, we move into writing essentials on a structural level, beginning with sentence structure. I’ll unpack common issues I (and other editors) are increasingly seeing today and how to avoid them in your writing.
If you’ve been primarily writing on your own blog or for clients that don’t have in-house editors, this will bring your writing to the next level so that when you pitch editors, rather than an eyebrow raise and delete, your pitches elicit a sense of professional camaraderie due to your polished prose.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, March 16.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Tuesday, March 17, 5pm EST: How to Break Your Trips into the Maximum Number of Article Pitches
Does one trip equate to just one story? Certainly not if you’re looking to make a living as a travel writer. In fact, it’s much more normal for full-time writers deriving their entire income from travel writing to place 10-12 articles from one trip–right when they first return.
In this webinar, we discuss the basic tenets of free travel as a travel writer, from ethics to minimum barrier to entry to the different types of trips and their various pros and cons.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, March 17.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Wednesday, March 18, 5pm EST: How to Generate Sure-Fire Saleable Article Ideas
Instead of generating article ideas and then trying to find a magazine that will take your idea, I find starting your brainstorming with the sections magazines include yields a much higher success rate.
In this webinar, we cover techniques that you can also use with any magazine that you have a copy of and ensures that your pitches hit the mark and you get responses from editors.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, March 18.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Thursday, March 19, 5pm EST: Don’t Create “Ideas” Out of Nowhere: How to Always Find Them When You Need Them
I’ve found that the process of coming up with the right ideas is much more of an issue than actually writing the pitch. Once you’ve got the idea right, the rest comes much more easily.
In this webinar, we work in detail through three different ways to generate ideas from magazines and three ways to come up with ideas “from thin air”. Never be worried about *what* to pitch again.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, March 19.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Friday, March 20, 5pm EST: How to Hone Your Travel Article Ideas to Perfectly Fit Each Magazine
In this webinar we workshopped article concepts into ready-to-pitch, focused ideas with multiple angles matched to specific magazines.
I pre-matched them with specific sections from multiple magazines and walked through the process of honing an article “idea” from your concept into something adapted to a magazine and ready to pitch.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Friday, March 20.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Don’t be late! All the free replays start right on time, and the system isn’t able to accept late attendees.
You can read all about our free webinar replays and get answers to any questions you have on our comprehensive FAQ page, or grab any webinars you have missed in our On-Demand Webinar Library.