Eva Shaw, Author and Grief Recovery Expert

In this course you'll learn how to develop the skills of a travel writer. You'll learn how to translate what is seen, heard, tasted, touched, smelled and felt (intuitively and physically) into publishable articles and books. You'll understand the writing styles and methods needed to sell material in today's competitive market (including the how-to's of technical aspects of lead paragraphs, descriptive passages and the uses of interviews, quotes and facts).

By the end of the course, you'll have the ability to write for the travel market. So pack your sense of adventure, organize your determination and put your keyboard in a comfortable position. If you have a desire to write and a yen to travel, you're a perfect candidate to become a travel writer. Let's get going.

Topics include popular styles and types of travel writing that are the "friendliest" to new writers. Other topics of the workshop include how to write query letters, how to produce articles, essays and books, trends in types of articles and books, grammar and writing skills refreshers, and marketing information.

Read what others thought about this course.

"I can't promise it will happen to you. or that you'll sell the first travel article you submit, but I did and it was because of this course. If you've ever considered writing for the travel market, take the class, prepare yourself, and then you can travel and get paid," Phillip T., Portland, ME

"I took this class on a lark. What a find. In the first lesson, I had already learned that I could get paid for writing about tourist places in my own area of New Jersey and New York. That's exactly what I've done. I'm putting that writing money away to finance my trip this summer to Italy," Les J., Newark, NJ

Would you like to see what you'll learn in this class? Visit the Education To Go website to locate a college or university near you that offers the course and pull up the course outline. It's that easy.