National Travel Writing Month

I’ve signed up for National Travel Writing month! This is quite a challenge, but the perfect way to kick start my attempt at passing myself off as a travel writer.

What is it?
National Travel Writing Month was created last year by Christine from the excellent Almost Fearless blog. The premise is to send 30 pitches in 30 days, this means sending query letters to editors to get them to commission writing from you. The aim is to get your work published, so you need to put yourself out there for the writing positions which will get you published and put money in your pocket, and published author credentials on your CV. The idea comes from National Novel Writing Month which occurs every November - I did contemplate doing that, but fiction really isn’t my thing at the moment.

Community
This time the site runs on the Ning social networking platform so there will be a lot of interaction and community encouragement throughout the challenge. I’m also assisting by running a twitter account to motivate and showcase the event.

Go For It
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, you can sign up at www.nationaltravelwritingmonth.com - at the very least you can encourage me along the way. I’ve got my Blues Tour at at the end of April to the beginning of May so hope to have plenty of things to write about along the way.

I’m off to brainstorm article ideas…

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