The Journey to Freelance Travel Writing

freelance travel writing course

Last weekend, I completed a freelance travel writing course with the Sydney Writers Centre. It was a two day intensive course where I learned the tricks to freelance writing and was armed with many tools and strategies to help me start pitching to print publications to sell my travel stories. Why not? You can listen to the video below where I tell you why I really loved the course and

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Travel Writing Course with Matador U

Travel writing course

So you want to bea travel writer? Traveling the world, taking photographs, and writing about your experiences seems like everyone’s dream job. But do you have any idea of the realities of the career and how to even go about becoming a travel writer? Do you have the ability to write a travel article that would be appealing to the editor of travel publications? Before you answer no and run away,

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Why I Don’t Want to Be a Freelance Writer

Freelance writing

Now before you get all huffy and puffy about my impeding article and the doom I am going to spread about freelance writing, take a deep breath and relax. This article is not intended to write off freelance writing, which is obviously a well-paying career for many people. This article is purely about me, and why I don’t want to write freelance. Whatever you choose to do with your life,

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Savouring the Present at the Beach

Umina Beach

The surfers stand on top of the resting bench, craning their necks to look above the lantana and natural sand dune scrub to see what the waves were doing on this crisp, winter morning. I didn’t have to know them to know they had names like Ringo, Didgie, Jungle, Bull, or Weedie. I didn’t have to hear their conversation to know that as they pointed their fingers, they were asking

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Deep Water

Fisherman's wharf Woy Woy

This piece is an assigment, written for my MatadorU Travel Writing Course. The piece is about my hometown in 500 words or less, which I found extremely difficult. Please leave feedback and suggestions in the comment box below, it will be most appreciated. “Whose shout is it?” Sam, grinning broadly, waves her empty glass in our faces, the clinking of the ice grabs our attention. “Vodka, lemon lime and bitters

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My Top 5 Travel Writing Magazine Publications

Travel Writing Magazines

As part of my first travel writing assignment for Matador U’s travel writing course, I’m posting a blog on travel writing magazine publications that I would like to  have articles published in. Since I first threw on the backpack 13 years ago,  I’ve dreamed of having a travel writing career but deemed it impossible through a lack of self-confidence and the misconceived notion that I needed to hold a degree

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