The Renegade Writer Blog

A couple of weeks ago, in a comment on my post about finding travel writing inspiration from your vacation, Chris asked a very good question about travel writing. (Chris, I can’t tell from your name whether you’re male or female, but I’ll roll the dice and assume you’re female!) She and her fiance love […]

In my last episode here on RW blog, I encouraged you to think about your vacation plans, and how you might use them as story fodder. I just noticed that there were a couple of comments on that post that I didn’t see, and I didn’t want to let them evaporate into the void!
So, Tiffany […]

Alison Stein Wellner, who’s teaching our new Travel Writing Workshop, and Monica Bhide, who’s back with her well-received Intro to Food Writing course, are offering students a chance to win a free basic-level class, a $125 value. All you have to do is sign up for one of them (or both) and you’ll be entered […]

You could say I’m a slow learner. I’ve been writing and editing professionally for more than 20 years, and only this year did I realize that I’ve been approaching my freelance career backwards. The conventional wisdom suggests that success comes to the freelancer who studies the markets and pitches stories that she thinks editors are […]

It’s almost May, and I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to think about what I’ll do for my summer vacation. Last summer, my husband, my cat Ginger and I went to Mount Tremblant in Quebec. We rented a cabin in the woods, my husband took a Skip Barber racing school, Ginger hunted for […]

Last week we held a drawing from among the people who had signed up for our fabulous Renegade Writer E-courses. Congratulations to Kelly Kingman, who signed up for Pat Curry’s course on writing for trade magazines. Kelly won a half-hour phone mentoring session with Diana and me.
It’s not too late to sign up for our […]

Today’s the last day to enter your name to win a free telephone mentoring session with Diana and Linda. All you have to do is sign up for one of the Renegade Writer e-courses, some of which are filling fast and starting soon:
*Building a high-paying career with trade magazines with Pat Curry, starts Monday, April […]

I’ve been pulling together my travel writing workshop, and happened to be preparing my materials on ethics, when a lovely little travel writing ethics scandal conveniently popped up in the news.
You’ve probably already heard about the fracas surrounding the new tell-all travel writing book, Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? A Swashbuckling Tale of High […]

A new session of the Renegade Writer e-courses is starting on April 28 — we have travel writing, food writing, and more great choices! If you’ve already signed up for a course, or if you sign up for one by end of business this Friday, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a free […]

Our next session of e-courses is starting in late April/early May, and I wanted to share these kudos for Elaine Grant’s course Magazine Writing Basics:
I loved the Magazine Writing Basics course. I learned a lot even though I took a Writing & Editing course through a university a couple years ago and a few of […]