Transitions Abroad’s New Travel Writing Portal
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 07.22.05 | 11:15 AM ET
Transitions Abroad has put together a terrific resource page for aspiring travel writers that features a moderated forum, as well as links to interviews, blogs, market leads and travel writers’ organizations. The page also includes book suggestions from a number of writers and editors, inlcuding yours truly. Travel writing is an awfully tough way to make a living, so it’s great to see that Tim Leffel, the mastermind behind this portal, introduces it with an unflinching look at the difficult realities of the business.
“This site aims to provide information and opinions from a variety of angles, with no chirpy promises about how you’ll travel around the world for free, and no sugar-coated advice followed by lots of exclamation points,” he writes. “Travel writing can be fun and rewarding, but like most anything worthwhile, doing it well takes a lot of dedication, study, and hard work. And the actual earnings are the last thing you will want to write home about.” Too true.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
