Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Go with Oh Travel Blogger competition...
Imagine free accommodation for a month in four European cities.
Sounds a lot like an impossible dream.
But the folks over at Go with Oh, a holiday accommodation site, is going to make this dream happen for some lucky blogger.
Interested?
All you have to do to enter is write a blog post about 5 things you'd most like to do in one of Go with Oh's accommodation destinations.
It shouldn't be to hard to do, given that their destinations are Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Prague, Venice, Dublin, and Florence.
In fact, the only hard part would be decided which destination to write about.
Check out Go with Oh's Blogger Competition page for more information on how to enter this amazing competition.
Are you in?
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52 Perfect Days Food and Wine Travel Writing Contest...
52 Perfect Days fourth annual travel writing contest is now open for submissions.
The topic this year is Culinary or Wine Tourism.
Submission guidelines...
* article no more than 1,000 words on your perfect experience with Wine or Culinary tourism
* detail how to spend a perfect day, evening, weekend, or week focusing on one of the following: wineries, tastings and tours, culinary explorations including culinary schools, foodie tours, B7Bs well known for their food or pairings, and food movements in particular cities. Or share a day of exploring the best restaurants, food carts, wine bars that a particular location has to offer.
* the travel story must be not only unique, engaging, and exciting to the reader and but also well-crafted and well edited.
* send the completed article and photographs to this emailThe four best entries as chosen by the 52 Perfect Days editors, will wine one of these prizes
- a trip to Calistoga in Napa Valley Wine Country
- a trip to Valle de Guadalupe in Baja Wine Country
- a WordPress website by ZDDesign
- a BottleWise Rollup wine travel case
Interested?
Then read the full submission guidelines and get writing.
Deadline for submissions is November 31, 2012
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Wanderlust Magazine's travel writing advice...
Travel magazine Wanderlust has published a few online articles focusing on travel writing...
Peter Moore, Wanderlust's associate web editor and author of six travel narratives, provides tips on How to convince a publisher to put out your travel book.
Peter Whitfield, author of Travel: A Literary History, offers 7 top tips to be a better travel writer
Book editor Jennifer Barclay gives the inside scoop on how to get your travel book published
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Weekly Top 5 Blog Posts for Writers...
- 10 Types of Killer Filler Content for Your Blog
- Build Your Arsenal to Better Promote Your Freelance Writing
- How to steal your way to freelance writing success
- Many finding ways to get a paycheck with blogging
- Top 10 Tips to Reply to a CraigsList Job Ad for a Writing Job
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Photo Friday: New Zealand's quirky coffee culture
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Weekly Top 5 Blog Posts for Writers...
1. Enhance Your Freelance Writing Career with These 5 Tips
2. The Author’s Guide to Social Media: How to build your media empire and take over the internet.
3. Freelance Focus: How to Pitch a Column, Part 1
4. 18 Online Tools for Freelance Writers that Help Boost Productivity [Part 2]
5. Build Your Arsenal to Better Promote Your Freelance Writing
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Photo Friday: Port-a-loos in the Gardens
Not exactly what you'd expect to see in when wandering through a city's botanic gardens. But in Christchurch, New Zealand, nothing is as you expect it these days.
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Monday, March 05, 2012
Weekly Top 5 Blog Posts for Writers...
1. Tips for Turning Online Procrastination Time into Writing Research Time
2. Five apps to simplify your writing projects
3. 29 Ways to Beat Procrastination Once and For All
4. Your Clutter is Killing Your Creativity
5. Improve Your Writing By Reading Like a Fiend
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Travelllll.com is hiring writers...
Travelllll.com, a travel blogging and media news site, is looking for a few good writers to provide content on travel blogging trends and the latest trends, news, and products in the online travel market.
What they are looking for...
If that sounds like you, head on over to Travelllll.com to find out how to apply.
- People who are passionate about the travel industry. We’re looking for two people who are on the bubble when it comes to the latest trends, news, and products in the online travel market.
- Good writers. We’re looking for people who can craft some English prose. You don’t have to be Shakespeare. But you should feel pretty comfortable with your abilities.
- Social media enthusiasts. We write about the online travel industry, not the destinations. You’ve got to have an interest in how travel as a whole is evolving online, not just pretty beaches and where to get the best Margarita.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Weekly Top 5 Blog Posts for Writers...
1. How to Instantly Transform Your Landing Page Images from Good to Great
2. 10 Ways Multi-blog Authors Can Stay Creative and Generate Great Posts
3. Having Trouble Getting Yourself To Write? 9 Tips
4. 8 ways freelance writers earn more by setting their sights higher
5. Are you afraid to pitch to editors? this is the reason you shouldn't be
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