writing advice Archive

Are You Creating Helpful Content, Entertaining, or Copying?
One big slap in the face that many entrepreneurs get too late is they find out that this great idea they’ve invested so much time and money in is one that makes people yawn.

Four Ways to Jumpstart Your Travel Writing Income
When I first started going to travel writer conferences back in the mid-’00s, I was just at the point where I was backing out of a “regular job” and going full-time as a travel

Ian Ord on Running Travel Tours Where Sidewalks End
Like me, Ian Ord is based in Mexico. He lives in Oaxaca, which frequently tops “world’s best cities” lists from glossy travel mags. He runs the tour company Where Sidewalks End and was one

A Conversation with Kara Williams
Kara Williams is one of the first people I interviewed in this blog, way back in 2010, and we spent time together at multiple conferences. She has written for me at two publications and

What’s Going to Work in Travel Writing Going Forward
What’s going to make you a successful travel writer or blogger in the 2020s? What’s going to work in travel writing going forward? I answer that question in more detail in the third edition
