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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 […]

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 […]

This week, I’m starting work on a travel story that you might call “vintage”, and no, it has nothing to do with wine!
It was almost exactly two years ago that I paid a visit to Cajun Country, in Lafayette, Louisiana. I took a tour of the small town of St. Martinville, and became intrigued with […]

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 […]

Okay, my name is Alison Stein Wellner, and I’ll admit that I’m the BlackBerry addicted writer that Diana traveled to India with last week. I love the infernal device, not just because it helps me to stay in touch with home wherever I am in the world –a huge benefit since I’m on the road […]

(Reprinted from Writer’s Digest)
by Linda Formichelli
Imagine this: You find a nice formal outfit at a local clothing store, but instead of whipping out your credit card, you tell the cashier that you’ll pay for the suit only should an occasion arise where you actually wear it.
Sounds silly, right? But that’s the same situation writers […]

Greg Korgeski, Ph.D., a former student in my 8-Week E-Course on Getting Published in Magazines, has has scored four coups:
1. His excellent article on mind-mapping, “Mapping Out of a Block” — the query for which he worked on as part of the coursework in my e-class — is in the December 2007 issue of Writer’s […]

One of our Renegade Writer Markets Wiki members posted a thorough entry on what looks like a good market: The Engravers Journal. Please join the wiki to add (or edit) writers’ markets yourself! It’s free and simple to sign up. [lf]
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Diana and I just posted another query in the Query Letters That Rocked section; it’s a query that landed a juicy assignment at West, the Los Angeles Times magazine.
If you’re an editor or a writer and you have a query that you’d like to nominate for this section, please contact us at questions [at] therenegadewriter […]