How to become a ‘travelling writer’ – not a travel writer

 

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These days most people want to become travel writers – trust me I am one and get asked weekly how to get paid to travel. Successful travel writers get some great jobs; they often get paid to travel, stay in luxury hotels, explore the far corners of earth and get freebies. While their pictures are exotic and their words evoke wanderlust, travel writing is not always as amazing as it seems. What you don’t see in the stories are the long nights in hotel rooms typing up notes, the hours spent...