How and When It’s Ok to Lie In Your Articles

You don’t want to go completely over the top. If your story starts reading like a plot-line for a Jaws remake, there’s a danger you’ll lose credibility with your readers (and your editor).

Interview with Master Dog Chef Micki Voisard

Interview with Master Dog Chef Micki Voisard.

Work Habits that Speed You Up: Best Writing Styles for Prolific Writers

Don’t force yourself to be poetic in your writing. Write in your natural voice. When you write in your natural style, you write quickly and well. When you try to force yourself to write in a way that is not natural or comfortable, the work becomes agonizing and you’ll slow to a snail’s pace.

Get Published Using a Cereal Box and a Tube of Toothpaste to Improve Your Query Letters: Part 1

Getting published with a simple, subtle formula. And you can find it right now, locked away in your medicine cabinet … stuffed in your mailbox … even printed on your tube of toothpaste. It’s on the back of every cereal box. It’s printed in living color on the inside cover of every magazine. You can even find it on the back of Coke cans.

Unexpected Attention-Grabbers: Three Effective Twists on the Travel Lead

Learn a few simple ways to go beyond straight description and write leads that really grab a reader.

Three Ways to Broaden Your Focus and Bump-Up Your Travel Writer Income

Three ways you can parlay your travel-writing know-how into related writing opportunities.

Seven Things New York Can Teach You About Travel Writing

By Freelance Writer and Copywriter John Forde in Paris, France There’s a little apartment in New York, on the corner of Bleecker and Perry. For three years, I lived there. For nearly three years more, my wife and I visited there when we could. We let friends take care of it in the interim. But […]

Places to Sell Your Real Estate Articles

This past Wednesday, my colleague Steenie Harvey and I conducted a special bonus session on writing about real estate for the many would-be travel writers in attendance at our Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop. Steenie seconded my contention that you really don’t have to have a background in real estate to write proficiently about it — […]

Eight Guidelines to Follow When Writing About Real Estate

Plenty of “consumer” publications buy real estate-related travel articles, and most of the time they are written by folks just like you. However, you should keep these eight guidelines in mind.