As a freelance travel writer, you can travel the world and simply click pictures and write about your travels. It is among the most exciting career options today; one that has a big future, with people yearning for newer, possibly even more exotic locations
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Job Duties for Freelance Travel Writer
Your duties as a freelance travel writer will revolve around travel and chronicling your travels. Newspapers and, increasingly, online forums such as blogs and online magazines offer the ideal working ground for travel writers. Some of the duties that you shall have to fulfil, as a travel writer, include:- Creating content including editorials, travel magazines, advertising and trade publicationsbased on principles
- Editing, standardising, correcting content and maintaining quality
- Keeping a record of files and work revisions
- Confer with publishers and editors about the style and theme of the article, to understand the best way to approach an article
- Additionally use other resources, like Photographs and Videos to support content if needed.
Skills:
Freelance Travel writers must possess all the necessary skills that writers boast off, but the crucial difference is that they are also in-tune with one sport or many and continue to feel strongly about. Travel writers thus require certain additional skills over the ones who develop copy, or pen novels. There are many skills that you will be needed to master, if you wish to become a sport writer. Some include:- Writing skills
- Research skills
- Content development
- Photography
- Consistency
- Interpersonal skills
- Independent
- Self-motivated
- Unbiased presentation (this is quite important as you may not get to always write about a place you wish to visit, or an aspect you really like)
Being Successful as a Freelance Travel writer:
Travel writing is a lucrative profession, where people like you who love to travel and record your travels can easily combine hobby into profession, come up with quality copies, and earn some money from the comfort of your couch. With experience, the ‘some’ money in question, rapidly evolves into handsome money.More often than not, talent is not a determinant of success in any sphere. It is possibly truer for writers, with the freelance market insisting that talent combined with the relevant experience attracts generous prospective employers.
Hence, to be successful initially, you could:
- Offer to do projects for minimum fees, sometimes for free
- Bid the lowest for a project on freelancer portals
- Get good testimonials for guest blogs, recommendations for work
- Start a blog, back link it to more visible blogs
- Create a website, or at the very least, a web page
- Advertise your services on social media platforms
- Understand the product or service intimately
- Be able to simplify overly complex language
Average remunerations:
So how much do freelance travel writers earn.Most of the revenue generated by you depends solely on your ability to market your services and your credibility with previous employees.
Usually freelance portals offer various kinds of payment models. In the fixed-price model, the price is usually pre-determined. The hourly model is the most popular and employers usually pay a predetermined sum per hour. Finally, in the project-budget based model, you often need to auction for such projects. Usually a fixed price model may range from $20- $200 and upwards, while you have to pitch for hourly projects, and budget payments, which usually range from $5- $35 an hour, with average payments at $20 per hour.
Finding work:
Finding work as a travel writer is quite easy. However, it may require efforts on your part. Quite a lot of effort in fact, network with other writers and editors to build a responsive network. In the past decade, many portals exist where you can apply for jobs all over the world and offer proposals for international projects.The most advisable course of action is to take the extra pain, go the extra mile, at the start of your career, at the least. It is important to remember that you are entering a market, as a freshman and thus, you must be willing to put extra efforts. Odesk, Elance, Guru and Peopleperhour offer many jobs to freelance travel writers globally.
Freelancing has opened up the way we view work: and the trend only continues to rise. All you writing enthusiasts, you wordsmiths who wish to carve a niche in this booming field, do not just think about pressing those keys, like ‘Nike’, which rhymes with Spiky, has always said: ‘just do it’.
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