writing advice Archive

Lavinia Spalding: Anthology Editor, Author, and Travel Writer
I first “met” Lavinia Spalding by e-mail when a story from Perceptive Travel online magazine made the cut for an edition of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, which she edits and chooses the articles

Where Art and Commerce Meet for a Writer
Or…where the left and right brain come together in the mind of a writer. Nearly a decade ago now, Copyblogger put up a post called Confessions of a 21st Century Writer. There’s nothing steamy

Tips for Diversifying Your Writing Business and Income
I have written frequently about the importance of diversifying your income and having multiple facets to your travel writing and blogging business. In this time when the need for that is more apparent than

Great Writers Are Also Readers
“If you don’t have awareness and an analytical understanding of what worked before, you can’t build on it.” That’s something Seth Godin wrote in a blog post while talking about business leaders, but it

Help Wanted: Travel Writers and Editors
If you are a freelance travel writer, you’ll hear plenty of your old-timer peers groaning about what a tough time this is. But then if you talk to the younger (or more adaptive) freelancers
