Launch your dream of writing for magazines and anthologies, authoring a travel memoir, or blogging your next journey. This three-hour tour of travel writing includes practical writing and marketing tips, details on what editors want, and solid information on how to create an online presence that attracts paid work.
LOCATION: San Diego Writers, Ink at Liberty Station in Point Loma.
TIME: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
COST: $55 ($45 for San Diego Writers, Ink members)
REGISTER: San Diego Writers, Ink website
DETAILS: Here’s what you’ll learn:
Writing
- Focus: Getting specific, and cutting non-essentials.
- Risking it all: Revealing your inner journey.
- Research: Geography, history, geology, botany, and so many other y’s.
- Details: All five senses, place as character, and dialog.
Marketing
- Niche markets first: Becoming a big fish in small pond.
- All about editors: Getting noticed in a very crowded email in-box.
- Photography matters: Capturing moments that enhance and sell the story.
- Your travel blog: Bushwhacking your way to paid gigs and press trips.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Carla King is an adventure travel journalist whose solo journeys around the world are published widely in online and print. Her books include Stories from Elsewhere, the Motorcycle Misadventures series, Cycling the French Riviera, and Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, which she co-authored with her writing group. Her work has appeared in Travelers’ Tales: Best Travel Writing 2011, In Search of Adventure, the San Francisco Examiner, Escape, Dive Travel Magazine, Adventure Motorcycle Magazine, Lonely Planet, and many other publications. Carla produced the award-winning Wild Writing Women online magazines and MotoSFO, a motorcycle touring guide to the San Francisco Bay Area. She runs the Self-Publishing Boot Camp program of books and workshops, and is the PBS MediaShift columnist on self-publishing. Carla was recently listed as one of The World’s 125 Most Inspiring Travelers. Wherever she is, you can always find her at CarlaKing.com.
REGISTER: San Diego Writers, Ink website
