Travel Writing
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Summertime Surfing Websites for Writers
A new batch of websites to hone your writing skills and new places to peddle your polished prose
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Summertime Writing
Keeping the prose flowing. Inspiration for hot weather writing.,Keeping the prose coming. Inspiration for hot weather writing.
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Inspired Writers at Themestream
Themestream offers great articles for writers and a place to publish our work! ,Themestream offers great articles for writers and a place to publish our work!
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Goal Setting for Writers I
Imagine where you want to go and succeed as a writer!
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Writers Conferences Around the Globe
Conferences are one of the best ways to inspire, nurture, and kick-start a writing career. ,Conferences are one of the best ways to inspire, nurture, and kick-start a writing career.
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How to Write a Travelogue
Travellers enjoy talking about fabulous cities, peculiar customs in exotic lands, and odd adventures only a foreign country can offer. Sharing our escapades with an eager audience is a fabulous bonus to travel.
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The Quagmire of Your Writing's Worth
The age old dilemma – do you write for free to get published or do you wait to be paid before you write? Often writers can not crack the market until they have published clips but does a writer have to give away their sweat and effort to become published?
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Travelogues Galore
The personal travel tale is one of the most useful preparations to any trip. The travelogue is also a great start to a first person travel article.
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Do It Yourself China
Travel writer Cheryl Probst’s two fantastic travelogue guidebooks on China, Do-it-yourself Beijing and My China, offer practical information on travelling in this vast, unique, and sometimes strange country.
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Beyond the Query Letter
Sending out query after query becomes a tedious task for the freelance writer. Successful writers however, never send out a query but have enough work to keep their keyboards whistling a happy tune. How? Face and name recognition is key!
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Travel Writing 101, Part II
Part II of Gary Crucefix's article for travel writers. Great info on travel markets!
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Travel Writing 101
Guest article by Gary Crucefix, founding editor of Fiction House, offers great advice and terrific links for travel writers!
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Writing Zone or Bust
Home crisis, ringing phones, unexpected visitors, insipid thoughts – all perfectly legitimate reasons for not turning out inspired prose. Successful writers however, find alternative routes around life’s persistent detours.
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Chatting With Sharon Wingler
A chat with Sharon Wingler, author of Travel Alone & Love It: A Flight Attendant’s Guide to Solo Travel, on travel writing, flying, and living your dreams.
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Adventure Travel
Adventure travel may be closer than you think. Enjoy Doug Sassaman's comic take on finding adventure in the back seat!
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Travel Alone & Love It!
Book Review: Travel Alone & Love It: A Flight Attendant's Guide To Solo Travel by Sharon B. Wingler. A fantastic book for all travelers!
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Writer's Ezines at Topica
Free ezines and newsletters for writers hosted at Topica!
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Idea Book
The freelance writer’s Idea Book. The secret ingredient for publishing success.
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More Links for Writers
Writers are mad for web sites featuring writing, freelancing, and how-to info. I've collected a new batch of great sites for writers, so enjoy!
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The International Interview
Join Sara in her look at the art and folly of interviewing in a foreign tongue!
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Study Abroad
Inspired Writers Abound! Postcards from Spain is motivating writers from around the world. Ever thought of studying abroad? It is a great opportunity to immerse yourself in the language and culture of another country and bring back a trunk load of travel articles!
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Postcards From Spain
Welcome to a new feature at Travel Writing at Suite101.com - Postcards From Spain! Our very own globe-trotting correspondent, Sara Miller, is spending six months in lovely Spain and flexing her travel writing muscles.
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British Pubs: A Travel and Writing Opportunity
Traveller's Book Review: British Pubs! An unique travel experience offering numerous travel article ideas.
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Writing How-to and Know-how by Email
Newsletters to inform, enlighten, and encourage writers!
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Finding Focus
Great travel articles offer focussed glimpses of a traveller's experience. Find focus for your next article!
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The Green Travel Article
Editors are hip to the ecotourism trend and welcome articles with a green theme.
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Travel Newsletters in Your In-Box
As travel writers, we always want the best price for our flight, we know there are hotel discounts and rebates, we'll clip coupons to save a buck or two. So, how do we keep up to date on the bargains? The answer is as close as your e-mail in-box!
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Write a Travel Book
Suite 101's contributing editor, Kelly Winters, has the inside scoop on a fantastic opportunity. Find out how you can become a published book author!
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Parts of a Query
A good query letter is the first step to having an article published. A query is simply a letter, selling your idea to the editor. This week we look at the parts of a successful query, using an actual query letter.
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Inside Travel Writing
Meet a great chameleon of our writing community. Susan Boyce has survived and prospered as a writer by never being afraid of a new challenge and adapting her skills to each unique opportunity. Susan is a successful freelance writer, editor, publisher, and writing instructor. In this first segment of a two part interview, Susan offers her insight and experience on breaking into the travel writing market.
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Surrey Writers' Conference 1999
I'm spending the weekend with a bunch of writers. Good food, good company, great fun! A writers' conference should be in your future, too!
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Top Paying Travel Writing Markets
Want to make a $1/word? How about taking home $1000 plus per article?
This is the realm of top paying travel writing markets!
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Turn Your Next Vacation into a Sale
The flight is booked, hotel confirmed, and you're off to sunny climes or snowy mounts. With a little pre-flight prep, you can turn your next vacation into a published travel article.
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Seven slants to travel writing success
Having a good slant is one of the best ways to keep your next travel article out of the slush pile.
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