Resources for Writers

Guest Article: Ten Tips For Landing Great Features In Your Home Area

Date: January 9th, 2008 |

Off and on, we here at Written Road get the privilege of published writers sharing their expertise. Sean McLachlan, book author and freelance journalist (and Madrid Writer’s Group buddy! was kind enough to allow us to reproduce a piece of his, originally published on www.writing-world.com; the one you will read below is an [read more]

Job Lead: Travel Writers Wanted For Asia

Date: December 17th, 2007 |

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The Internet is rapidly moving into audio-visual content, the future is definitely podcasting and more so video-casting, so if you have the skills to write and produce audio and/or visual content for the Internet, now’s the time to start.
Podasia is a company that does travel podcasts covering a wide range of travel topics and is [read more]

Job Lead: Quebec City Guide Writer

Date: December 4th, 2007 |

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Globe Pequot Press is looking for a travel-guide writer to cover Quebec City, Canada.
The book will be 64-pages and will include the regular categories of sights, shopping, entertainment, restaurants and hotels.
A few travel-guide writers, including Written Road’s very own travel-guide expert Nicholos Gill and Moon Handbook author Sean McLachlan, told me that once you [read more]

My Interview On Write-To-Travel!

Date: November 21st, 2007 |

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I had the privilege of being interviewed (as a travel-writer!) by KiwiWriter for her wonderfully resourceful travel-writing blogs Write-To-Travel.
It’s my first proper interview and I’m thrilled. I must be doing something right!
Check it [read more]

Travel-Writing Web 2.0

Date: November 15th, 2007 |

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For those who haven’t seen this already, there is a great interview with Tim Leffel done by our friends at Brave New Traveler.
With everything under the sun moving online at an incredibly fast pace, the future of travel-writing on the Internet is a hot topic. I personally think that just for the pace at which [read more]

End Of Year Travel-Writing Contest

Date: December 28th, 2007 |

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Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and got some time to unwind. I certainly did and am having trouble getting back into the swing of things.
On that note, here’s something for those who want to do one last productive thing before the end of 2008 (oh my goodness, 2008!!), or start the year with [read more]

Interview: Ross Borden

Date: December 14th, 2007 |

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As we continue our series of interviews in travel media, co-founder of Matador Travel Ross Borden sits down to answer questions on creating their rapidly expanding site, The Traveler’s Notebook, the Bounty Board , his personal travel preferences, and much, much, more. Enjoy!
Written Road: How did you first become involved in travel writing/publishing?
Ross Borden: Matador [read more]

Job Lead: Write Scripts for Audio and Video Travel Guides

Date: December 2nd, 2007 |

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Podasia.net, a website that allows you to download free travel guide podcasts, is expanding into providing video content for guides and integrating with online and print travel publications.
For this, they are looking for freelancers interested in generating content for specific theme-based travel guides. Current countries of interest are:
-India
-China
-Vietnam
-Japan
-Singapore
Basic job description: Translate, research, write, compile and [read more]

Vagabondish Travel-Writing Tips

Date: November 18th, 2007 |

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Vagabondish, a great portal full of travel-resources,tips and commentary, last week launched their ‘guide to better travel-writing’ which gave 23 habits of a good travel-writer.
Today they released the 2nd part of the multi-series that shares ‘20 time-tested techniques for travel writers‘ that also has exercises that you might want to try out.
The series congregates [read more]

Want To Be The Next Great Travel-Writer?

Date: October 30th, 2007 |

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Well, here’s an opportunity.
Travcoa (a luxury and exotic travel company) and National Geographic Traveler have launched a competition in search of “The Next Great Travel Writer”.
So if you are a student in North America, send in a 300-word-essay of a travel story that moved, excited or changed you and you could be on your [read more]