Course Description for

Travel Writing

with Susan Farewell

Registration Fee and Course Length

Prerequisites

Standard course: $180 / 6 weeks. Click here to register.

Extended schedule: $224 / 12 weeks. Click here to register.
Extended course is designed for busy people and gives you two weeks to do each lesson but contains NO additional material.

No prerequisites.

Course Contacts

Course Description

In addition to the following, each session will include guidance for developing individual travel writer styles. I will provide weekly writing exercises.

Week 1: Are you Cut Out to be a Travel Writer? An overview of the travel writing profession and information on what skills, aptitudes, and education one must have in order to succeed as one.

Week 2: Doing the Research: Press Trips and Other Ways to Travel. In this session, I will talk about what one needs to know in this highly controversial time of subsidized travel. Also, other ways to do travel articles, including the craft of interviewing.

Week 3: Travel Story Structure--from lead to conclusion.

Week 4: Rewriting, fact checking, final editing travel pieces.

Week 5: Promoting Yourself and selling your work.

Week 6: The Business of Travel Writing; A Balancing Act. In this session, I will discuss how travel writers can effectively juggle traveling, writing, editing, and promoting themselves and still have a reliable income. It will include strategies for getting many articles out of one trip, on landing a big contract, attracting steady clients, and getting a column.

Susan Farewell is the editor-in-chief of Farewell Travels.com , an online multimedia travel magazine that uses animated films and cinematic-quality videos to showcase travel destinations, experiences and products. It is a monthly "publication."

A former travel editor and staff writer at The Condé Nast Publications in New York City, Susan is a widely know digital, print and broadcast travel journalist. Her work has appeared in numerous publications (and sibling websites) including Condé Nast Traveler, Vogue, Gourmet, Cooking Light, Travel and Leisure, Outside, Metropolitan Home, McCall's, Child and Bride's. She also writes for newspapers such as The New York Times and The New York Post, newsletters (BottomLine Personal) and numerous in-flight and regional magazines as well as various websites.

In addition to writing, Farewell has also developed countless products both in digital and traditional media from travel guides to online magazines.

She is the author of several books including How to Make a Living as a Travel Writer, Hidden New England and Quick Escapes from New York City (the latter two have had multiple editions). She has also co-authored many books.

Susan is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, the New York Travel Writers, the North American Snowsports Journalists and the Eastern Ski Writers Association.

Ms. Farewell has a B.A. degree in Greek Classics from Boston University and College Year in Athens, in Athens, Greece.

susanfarewell.com

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