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        Taught by a bestselling travel author, professional writing coach,                     and former website editor for Rick Steves' Europe.

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         Join longest running, highest rated travel writing course on Udemy:      More than 1,200 student reviews and an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars.              ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

Lots of people dream of becoming travel writers. 

          This course teaches you how to fulfill that dream. 

                    Discover how to write travel tales readers (and editors) will love,                               and sell your stories to newspapers and magazines.

Hi. I’m Dave Fox. I’m a freelance travel writer, a bestselling author, and writing and creativity coach. I’ve worked in more than 50 countries as a freelance travel writer, workshop presenter, and international tour guide. I help people write amazing tales about their journeys.

If you have dreams of becoming a travel writer – whether it’s so you can publish your work professionally, create a popular personal travel blog, or just write about your travels for the fun of it – I can help you achieve your goals. 

  • Beginning travel writers: If travel writing is something you’ve wanted to break into, but you haven’t known how to get started, this course will teach you all you need to know to begin writing lively and exciting travel tales today. 

  • Intermediate travel writers: If you’ve done some travel writing before, but you want to create more polished, compelling stories – stories that stand out in the crowded arena of aspiring travel writers – this course will help you hone your skills, and it will give you a clear understanding of how to succeed in the writing business and get published.     

  Follow these lessons, and I guarantee you will see an immediate improvement in your writing. You'll learn skills you can start using right away – and skills that will evolve and get even better over time as you keep writing. You’ll gain a clear understanding of the techniques professional writers use to write captivating travel essays, and you’ll discover your own, unique writing voice.     

  Some of the topics we’ll cover include: 

  • Transforming your “rough-draft” travel diaries into compelling personal travel essays with attention-grabbing beginnings, streamlined middles, and meaningful endings – and why you must follow a very different writing style from your “on-the-road” journals when you write travel tales for others to read. 

  • Spotting and capturing the details that make a story sparkle and writing about them in ways that make readers feel like they’re right there with you. 

  • Bringing characters to life through quotes and vivid description, and navigating the ethical and legal issues that come with writing about other people. 

  • Avoiding stale clichés that weigh down potentially great writing and coming up with fresh, original alternatives. 

  • Getting started in travel blogging. 

  • Pitching and selling your articles to newspapers, magazines, and anthology books. (Thousands of newspapers and magazines pay freelance writers more for a single story than you'll pay for this workshop. ) 

  • The most common beginners’ mistake that keeps many aspiring travel writers from getting published – and how to fix it. 

  • And tons of other easy-to-act-on writing tips. 

If you want to be a great travel writer, there’s another thing you must also be able to do. You must know how to have big adventures – because those adventures will spark your boldest stories. So I’ll also share my tips on how to make exciting things happen when you travel – how to find richer cultural experiences and more meaningful personal encounters in the places you visit. (Even if you’re an introvert. )     

This course is different from other travel writing courses. It doesn’t just offer tips on how you should write; it also explains how you shouldn’t write. 

Lots of people try to break into travel writing. Those who don’t succeed usually blame it on not being talented enough – but that’s often not their real problem. Their real problem is they have adopted a set of habits that are weakening their writing. 

Over the two decades I’ve been teaching travel writing workshops, I’ve identified a series of common mistakes beginning writers make. These mistakes weigh their writing down, and hold them back from writing to their full potential. These habits are easy to fix once you know how to spot them in your own work. This course teaches you how. 

In addition to more than three hours of information-packed videos, this workshop also includes a series of writing exercises to help you practice what you’ve learned, and an online discussion forum where you can ask me questions whenever you like and talk about your writing our international community of more than 9,500 writing students. 

  Q: True or False: Only a few lucky people get to become successful travel writers. 

  A: False. Being “lucky” has nothing to do with it.  

      Talent doesn’t really work that way. 

If you’re smart enough to understand this webpage, you’ve got all the brain-cells you need to become a successful writer. Doing it on your own is tough, however. Success will come more quickly if you have a teacher, a mentor, to help guide the way. 

I love engaging with my students, and answering  questions in our online forums. So ask me questions at any time. I’m here to help. (I also offer in-depth critiquing and one-on-one coaching for an additional fee – but we’re getting ahead of ourselves. If you’re just getting started, you’ll get the most value for your money if you begin with the basic course.) 

I also believe that we learn faster when learning is fun. So I promise my lessons are lively, even a bit goofy at times, and never boring. (And if you don’t agree, if you don’t feel you have gotten your money’s worth after joining the course, Udemy offers a 30-day, no-questions-asked, money-back guarantee. You’ve got nothing to lose. ) 

We are each in this life for a finite amount of time. We owe it to ourselves to achieve our dreams during that time. If becoming a travel writer is one of your life dreams, I can help you make that dream a reality. 

Also check out my other courses on Udemy: 

  • Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip. )

  • Deep Travel: Have Adventures No Guidebook Can Tell You About

  • Professional Humor Tricks for Writers, Speakers, and Other Misfits

  • The Writing Mind 1: Defeat Writer's Block & Write Confidently

  • The Writing Mind 2: Overcome Distractions & Get More Written

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"(Dave is) the best writing teacher I have ever had. Talented, funny, approachable, and structured."

– Leslie in Surrey, England

"People sometimes ask me how they can become travel writers.... Dave Fox's Globejotting would be a good place to launch a career as the next Paul Theroux."

– David Stanley, author of the Moon Handbooks: South Pacific travel guidebook

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Dave Fox's writing has appeared in books by Rick Steves, Lonely Planet, and Travelers' Tales, as well as a wide range of newspapers and magazines on four continents.

He has been featured for his travel and writing expertise on CNN Travel, The History Channel, Channel NewsAsia, National Public Radio in the USA, and ABC Radio in Australia.

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I am enjoying Dave Fox's course, Travel Writing, and committed to writing the exercises at the end of each section so that I will benefit as much as possible.

The skills that I learned in this course helped me land a repeat PAID travel writing gig for a magazine!

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Novice writers and even those with some publishing experience, will find this course taught by Dave Fox, a valuable resource to further their passion.

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Getting to learn a lot already.

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Exactly what Dave said the course was about.

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I am really enjoying this course.

Halfway through - I am really enjoying the lessons and I feel that I'm learning some great tips from you.

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