July 26 2008 - Travel Writing Workshop - California
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:14:00 +0000
Travel Writing - Map out the route to your dream profession
Saturday, July 26th, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$95 members; $110 non-members
Website: http://www.writingsalons.com/classes
Do you love to travel? Keep a travel journal? Why not take the next step and turn your daily scribbles into salable articles? You can do this by learning two things: 1) how to improve your storytelling abilities, and 2) how to market your work. I'll lead you through the steps of writing a travel story and then targeting and querying your markets (short story anthologies, newspapers, magazines and ezines)," says instructor Lisa Alpine. "We'll also discuss ways to generate other travel-related sources of income, such as writing press releases and doing guidebook research. Whether you're writing about your neighborhood or rafting down the Zambezi, you can develop specialty travel angles that open up publishing avenues beyond the Sunday Travel Section - and still pay well." So come launch your career as a travel writer!
Lisa Alpine is an addicted traveler who has turned her passion for globetrotting into a career. She has been a professional writer for 21 years and is the travel columnist for the Pacific Sun in Marin County. Her articles and short stories appear in numerous periodicals and anthologies, from the Los Angeles Times and SF Chronicle to Parenting Magazine and Specialty Travel Index. She is the creative director of Travel Press International, has been a guest speaker at numerous travel writer's conferences, and is a member of Wild Writing Women, whose travel anthology won the National Association of Travel Journalists award for "Best Travel Book of 2002."
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