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Travel Writing
with Susan Farewell

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No prerequisites.

Standard course: $150 / 6 weeks. Click here to register

Extended course: $188 / 12 weeks. Click here to register
Extended course gives you two weeks to do each lesson but contains NO additional material.

For questions about this COURSE, e-mail Susan Farewell at

This six-week-long course is designed for writers (or want-to-be) writers who are interested in writing and selling articles about travel. In the six weeks, instructor Susan Farewell will provide direction as to how an individual can go about achieving this. The course will be loaded with nuts and bolts information as well as include inspirational and motivational techniques for making it all happen. It is based on Farewell's book, How to Make a Living as a Travel Writer.

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 luding 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.

Ms. Farewell left Conde Nast to become a freelance writer and editor and now contributes to such magazines as Gourmet, Vogue, Travel Holiday, Travel and Leisure, McCall's, Metropolitan Home, Child, Bridal Guide, Gulliver (published in Tokyo), Diversion, Discovery, Currents, and Caribbean Travel and Life. Her work also appears in newspapers such as Crain's New York Business, Crain's Chicago Business, The New York Post, and St. Petersburg Times. Ms. Farewell is the editor of Your Invitation to Europe, the official travel publication of the European Travel Commission. This is published twice a year and distributed in several major US newspapers including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune.

In addition, she is the author of How to Make a Living as a Travel Writer (Paragon House, 1992) and Simon and Schuster's Mobil Road Atlas and Trip Planning Guide, New England Atlas, and the Pacific Northwest Atlas. Her most recent book, Quick Escapes from New York City was published by The Globe Pequot Press last year.

Farewell has co-authored several books including Eyewitness Guide: New York (Dorling Kindersley, 1993), Frommer's New England 1993 (Simon & Schuster), Recommended Caribbean Inns (The Globe Pequot Press), The Penguin Guide to New York City, The Penguin Guide to the Caribbean, Fodor's Selected Resorts and Hotels of the U.S., Hidden Guide to New England (Ulysses Press), andù Fodor's National Parks of the West and Great American Sports and Adventure Vacations.

Teaching Experience
Susan is one of a small group of writing workshop leaders at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Tarrytown, New York. She teaches two eight-week-long workshops, one on travel writing, the other entitled "Stop Talking About It; Just Write." In addition to the Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Farewell periodically is a guest-speaker at elementary schools in the tri-state area. She has also spoken at Writers' Conferences on both the east and west coasts and for the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Society of American Travel Writers.

On-Line Experience
Susan Farewell has conducted a number of on-line conferences for American Express on AOL. The topics have been travel related including "Safari Travel" and "Planning a Honeymoon." Most of her on-line experience, however, comes from exploring the net for professional research and taking courses on the internet and other related topics. She has also been using computers almost exclusively for preparing and transmitting manuscripts for at least ten years.

Affiliations
Susan is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of American Travel Writers, and the New York Travel Writers.

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