Learn how to travel free and make money as a freelance travel writer
 

Paris, Hong Kong, Rio – do you dream of traveling to exotic destinations, but don’t have the budget? Learn the craft of travel writing – where magazines and websites pay you to travel and write about the places and activities you want to explore. Experienced freelance travel writer Flo Conner will provide you with a step-by-step plan that will turn your treks into checks.

Treks into Checks is a six-week self-paced travel writing course that will teach you the step-by-step process to become published as a travel writer. You’ll learn how to determine saleable travel article ideas, target suitable travel publications, pitch article ideas to editors and write sound travel articles. By the end of the self-paced course, you’ll have a completed query and travel article ready to submit to a selected publication.

Here’s how the Treks Into Checks Travelwriting course works:

Week 1 -- Reviewing the Travel Writing Industry and Goal Setting:
Why travel magazines are using more freelance writers, traits of a good travel writer, the process of becoming a published writer and finding saleable ideas.
Assignments: Finding publications in obvious and not-so-obvious places. Researching on the web. Finding out your travel interests and goals and the kind of writing and publication that suit your individual aspirations.

Week 2 -- Determining and Targeting Suitable Travel Publications:
Kinds of publications, websites, finding the correct editor, kinds of articles and kinds of writing.
Assignments: Pinpointing magazines for assignments and targeting your article ideas.

Week 3 -- Writing Query Letters:
The anatomy of a convincing query letter; what a travel editor wants to read in a query letter, how and when to call an editor, how to sell yourself without clips, the kinds of rejections and how to use them to better market yourself and your writing ideas.
Assignments: Playing with first paragraphs, marketing your ideas, selling yourself to an editor, promoting yourself and your articles without freaking yourself out. (It will be fun, I promise.)

Week 4 – Researching Your Story:
Where to find information, researching on the web, how to collect information on and off site, who and how to interview.
Assignments: Gathering your resources, organizing your travel article, writing descriptively.

Week 5 -- Writing the Travel Article:
What readers want to know when they read a travel article, what to include in an article, what to leave out, the mark of a travel writing professional, writing tips.
Assignments: Writing the body of the article and query, writing descriptively.

Week 6 – Traveling on Press Trips:
What they are, who sponsors them, how to get invited, how not to get invited back, subsidized versus non-subsidized travel, group versus solo travel, and ethics. (And yes, you can read this chapter first.)
Assignments: Final polishing of query and travel article, submission to targeted travel publication/s, uncovering how tourist offices and travel public relations agencies work with travel writers, writing letters requesting press trip/story assignment and presenting yourself professionally.
 

Ebook Course format

This travel writing course consists of an ebook with six lessons with additional pertinent reading and reference materials. Each lesson consists of reading materials, lots of writing, research and marketing advice, and assignments that guide you step by step, week by week to a completed article for a targeted publication. The lessons are divided into weekly segments, but you can complete them at any pace that meets your schedule. 

Please note that the ebook is a PDF, which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (Older versions are okay). If you don’t have it (most computers already have a version), you can download the free reader here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Depending on your connection speed, downloading the file make take a few minutes, but the workbook was designed for easy downloading and printing on a home computer, so there are limited graphics and no wasted white space to bump up the page count. 

Cost: $40. PDF download is immediate upon payment.

Payment is via PayPal with or without an account using your checking account or credit card.

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