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- An attempt to tell all about travel writing and how most is just lies. Hobo Review of this Book

There are people... Out there...traveling the world. Telling stories, and having fun. Please help the visitors to understand where they are and what they do for a living. If you can tell about a travel writer, or point us to a link about travel writing please do so. If you are a writer, or "Wannabe" please tell comments also.

Note the majority of travel writing is unpaid and unsolicited and now on the internet there are tens of thousands of page where people have written and published to the internet their stories.

Please read all of this, then if you are interested in writing for money HoboTraveler.com is now offering money for travel tips and some types of experience writing. . We are not looking for professional writers, but for people with real life experience.

TYPE OF TRAVEL WRITERS

INTERNET - NOT PAID

1. Blogs or Web Logs
       A. Blogs of only words.
       B. Blogs with photos inserted.

2. Internet Travel Newsletters written using Free list server companies like Topica.com  or that send emails to people and they can subscribe and unsubscribe.

3. Group emails to a large group of friends.

4. Travelogues - Make a page as they are traveling.

5. Return home to make a page of their experience posting their picture and information.

6. Contributing post to sites like Virtualtourist.com or

7. Forums of travel experiences like the Lonelyplanet.com Thorntree or Frommers.com forum.

MAGAZINES
1. Paid articles
2. Companies pay to have the magazine publish their articles. An advertisement disguised as a Travel Article.

BOOKS
1. Anecdotic like Bill Bryson.

GUIDEBOOKS

PAID
1. Normal salary.
2. Salary plus commission for selling advertisements in guidebook.
3. Salary plus free room given to them by Hotels or Tour companies.
4. Salary paid by guidebook, but then the writer extorts Hotels into giving bribes or free rooms so he or she will speak kindly of their company.

UN-PAID
1. Person writes a guidebook and has it published.
With the new POD - Print on Demand books a person can do this for as little as 500 U.S. Dollars.

NEWSPAPERS

1. Paid normal salary and either compile other people works, or they sometime travel a small amount.
2. They have a person travel and write the letter and they put the letter in their name. Possible for magazines also.

GENERAL:
 
Travelwriters.com
Travelwriterml.com
Travelvice.com - I traveled with Craig in the Caribbean
Iiterarytraveler.com - I met with him in Delhi, India

FollowTheRabbit.com
Inkspot.com

BLOGS - HOW TO BLOG?
Blogger.com

COPYRIGHT

Copyright Laws of USA

SELLING ARTICLES - HOW TO SELL?
Freelancesuccess.com
Mav.net

INTERVIEWS:
Inkspot.com

NEWSLETTER LIST SERVERS - FREE

Topica.com

POD - Print on demand sources. 

REQUEST FOR TRAVEL WRITERS



POD NEWSLETTERS - Print on Demand

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WRITERS PAGES
 
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