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Abandoned Factories and Shuttered Print Publications
Whenever there’s a transition from one kind of demand to another, the creative destruction can be painful. That’s true in all types of business, from blue-collar manufacturing to white-collar professional services. There are a

What’s Your Excuse for Not Succeeding?
What’s your excuse for not succeeding with your writing career or blog? Is it Google’s fault? Pinterest’s? Editors who don’t respond? The pandemic? I’ve been talking to other travel writers since “travel writing” meant

Local and International Travel Blogging With Jeremy Jones
I’ve tipped a few beers with Jeremy Jones in several locations and have enjoyed the This Week in Blogging newsletter he has been putting together with Christopher Mitchell. He is best known for an

What It Takes to Go Pro as a Travel Writer or Blogger
Like most fun gigs, travel writing is a dream job if you don’t need to care about the money. If you’re trying to go pro and make a living at it, all the perks

Modern Travel Blogging: How We Got Here and the Future of Storytelling
I provide regular rants on this blog in between interviews and have more than a few negative critiques about boring blogs in the Travel Writing 2.0 book and in my Travel Writing Overdrive course.
