Travel writing may not be the highest paying job that you can do but you can still share your experience by writing them down and sell them to potential clients. Unless you are traveling to get inspiration for your next book, you should be well aware on how to construct your travel writing before giving them out to any clients.
Many people think that being a travel writer is an exotic and exciting career to spend your life on since you will be traveling to different places all the time and get to experience a lot of new things, almost always different in a single year. But as many think of how much benefits the people think with travel writing, it is not as highly paid and relaxing. For some who have contributed a thing or two to travel and tour magazines with their travel writing, they may have the job just as a sideline, like sort of an extra income. This kind of profession is one of the most competitive and has indecent paid professions. If you are really serious with becoming a travel writer, you need to have the following things in check:
- Excellent reading and writing English skills – an editor of a famous travel magazine will not pay you of your poor grammar skills.
- Photography – if you have photos along with your travel writing, you will be able to sell more and meet a lot of potential clients but if your English skills are poor, there is no use for the picture you have taken, although you can still sell the photos you have taken either to offline or online customers. If you sharpen your photography skills, you will earn extra income with this along with your travel writing career.
- Finding the right angle and title for your writing. You must create an angle that will make readers interested and be hooked to it that they will read everything, not living one sentence behind.
- Make sure that you write short, unless you are going for a book. Do not make unnecessary comments that will make your writing dull and boring. Be precise and concise with your work. This could mean that your writing should be composed of between 250 to 1000 words.
Other ways to sell your travel writing is online. There are a lot of clients willing to buy your travel writing and turn them into reading articles in the web.