Join Us for Free Travel Writing Lessons on Journalistic Details
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, February 17, 5pm EST: Weaving Journalistic Detail into Short Articles
In short, front-of-book pieces and in subsections of round-up features, the devil in the detail is choosing what to include from all of your research.
In this webinar, we explore how to use your magazine’s audience and the type of magazine section you’re writing as a lens to drastically simplify the agonizing decisions of what details to include, how much time to devote to them, and how to execute them from a writing perspective.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, Februry 17.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Tuesday, February 18, 5pm EST: Weaving Journalistic Detail into Descriptions of People
Fiction writers are known for their descriptions of characters, but so many writers skip these details in their travel pieces—to their detriment.
Characters are one of the main things editors regularly lament that writers don’t include in their pitches or final pieces. In this webinar, we explore how to get the details you need on the ground as well as how to incorporate them into your pieces.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, February 18.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Wednesday, February 19, 5pm EST: Weaving Journalistic Detail into Descriptions of Places
Setting the scene in your pieces can be the single hardest block of text for so many of us to write! How do we be “creative” or write that “flowery” stuff?
The key to writing a description of a place that (1) doesn’t take you forever and push you into a type of writing you may not be so comfortable with, and (2) actually belongs in the piece your writing and shows your writing chops off to your editor (especially in a pitch) is a strong foundation in journalistic detail.
We explore how it works with evocative verbal depictions of places in this webinar.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, February 19.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Thursday, February 20, 5pm EST: Creating Ambiance with Journalistic Detail
In this series on journalistic detail, we looked at many specific situations in which you should be thoughtful about how and why you’re introducing detail, from short articles to descriptions of people and places.
In the last webinar in this series, we take it higher level—how do the details that you choose create a larger takeaway for the reader without you coming out and explicitly telling them what you want them to feel?
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, February 20.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Friday, February 21, 5pm EST: Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together a News Brief
We’ll walk through a part of the writing process–structuring your articles–that should come before your fingers hit the keyboard and before you even begin researching your piece to show you how to quit second-guessing yourself and save tremendous time on your articles.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Friday, Februray 21.
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.