Okay, so yesterday I posted about my little annoyance towards ‘self-help’ writing that seems to be the more popular way of getting published quickly. I expressed that I wanted my writing to be about the art of storytelling. This is STILL true; however, I must admit that it is a little bit hypocritical of me to be too harsh on the ‘self-help’ genre when I really do enjoy travel writing.
Travel writing by nature or at least the kind of writing I’ve been doing is of the ‘self-help’ variety by offering tips, sharing reviews or thoughts on hotels or places to go while traveling. SOOOOOO…, I guess I might have to retract on what I wrote yesterday.
With that, I had previously written for a site called Suite101, which allows you to receive funds for your articles if they generate enough traffic that people also click on the ads that are integrated into the article. You benefit after your revenue hits 10.00USD. Well, the pressure of having to write so many articles every three months and not really getting any monetary benefit from it, I sort of slagged off a bit and ventured into other areas to share my writing.
Since I generally only write during holidays or when procrastinating from my dissertation work, I sort of put off the travel writing pursuit. Then, a few months ago, the administrator of Smart Travel Info – a travel website – contacted me asking if I would be interested in writing for his site as he liked the articles I had written for Suite101.
It’s a kind of a start-up site at the moment, but is a collection of tips, stories and so on for traveling, which goes quite well with my own philosophy of travel writing. Of course, I agreed to write for the site. One cool thing is that I can put the articles I wrote for Suite101 on there as enough time has passed since I last published and get new exposure for the old articles while I write up new ones!
Now, I just gotta re-adjust my daily vacation schedule a bit so that I include some travel writing as well! 😉
-T 😀
