The Flourishing Travel Creator

All Posts Tagged: Getting started

Find Your Next Gig on These Travel Writing Job Boards

If you are new to writing, travel writing, just the particular geographic area or type of travel you’d like to write about, or if you simply need to get money coming in as soon as possible, it can be faster and easier to start with jobs that already exist rather than creating your own.

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How To Get Your First Travel Writing Clips


When people try to break in and get their first travel writing clips, they tend to go one of two ways. Either they immediately try to pitch newsstand travel magazines, or they think they can only break in with their own blog or online magazines and websites that pay pennies, if anything.

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Travel Writing Books and Courses I Recommend (Believe Me, I’ve Tried Everything)


Before I actually made the leap—as in quitting my job to freelance full-time, not simply starting to publish some pieces—into travel writing full-time, I spent five years seriously studying up on the profession.

In that time, when I thankfully had a full-time job to foot the bill, I took every course I could get my hands on, loyally read every blog on the topic, and devoured over travel magazines and books on travel writing.

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