I’ve been busy lately planning a month long holiday in September. Except it won’t just be a holiday. It will be my first trip as a ‘travel writer’. Not that I have any commissions lined up (yet!). It’s just that I have put myself in a mindset that I will be travelling as a writer.
No longer will I simply take off to places unknown without a list of article ideas to follow up.
No longer will I travel without notebooks, recording devices, and business cards.
No longer will I travel without first sending out numerous query letters trying to get one or two editors interested in where I am going.
I am a travel writer….
Today I sent out three query letters relating to my travels…
Tomorrow I will visit the my travel agent…
Where am I going ? Spain and New York.
I’m looking at a week in Madrid and then a week in a small village outside Madrid where I have discovered a unique activity that I feel has article potential (not to mention will be a lot of fun).
Then I’ll be off to New York for my lunch date with Wendy Perrin (consumer travel editor of Conde Nast Traveler and founder of The Perrin Post)and a chance to explore New York City.
Meanwhile, I will continue to research, plan, and scheme about ways to write and travel…
By the way, a new 'Where's Wendy?' contest is starting on June 21st...I'll be testing my knowledge again.
Maybe I can win a second lunch...
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