Here at Dream of Travel Writing, we’re all about three things:
- honesty
- transparency
- insanely useful information
When our founder, Gabi Logan, started freelance travel writing, there was no community of up-and-coming travel writers where everyone got together and discussed their fears, annoying editors, and what was holding them back.
She spent a lot of time reading websites about becoming location independent or freelancing generally or freelance writing across all different genres. As she built up her freelance writing career with regular gigs at magazines, well-paid work creating custom content for small travel companies, and blogging for travel websites, she had to figure it out as she went along.
The situation has now changed dramatically.
There is too much information out there.
What people looking to build business that support them with their creativity beg for today is clarity.
When we ask people what is the main thing holding them back, we hear things like:
- I don’t really know where to start and what to do – it’s too overwhelming for me to figure out on my own right now.
- How do I deal with the overwhelm of info?
- I get paralyzed by my ideas.
- I’m spinning my wheels, trying to figure out what to do. It’s a time suck.
This can be incredible demoralizing!
Sometimes people even tell us:
- They’re lacking confidence and feeling overwhelmed, because they don’t have a clear path or tangible plan in place.
- They say it’s easy for them to dream big, but when they sit down at their computer, it all seems impossible.
- They feel defeated before they even start, so they just keep reading more and more things online.
Even if you can wrap your head around all the options out there for what to do to build your dream life and business, a lot of people can’t see how to match them to what they need.
Maybe you’ve found yourself feeling like:
- You’re not sure how to take what you have to offer and find the correct path to take to be successful.
- You’ve lost your way a little bit and don’t have a realistic and strategic plan in place.
- Your biggest question is: how do I get started and come up with a plan for success?
- You’re having trouble coming up with a personal road map to success that includes your desired assignment mix.
- You just need to get your own personal recipe of success down pat and are not quite sure how to create a beginning career foundation that will propel you forward.
- You don’t know the best way to get started or what skills you need to improve to be successful.
- You need to know what’s the best time and task breakdown for you right now.
Or maybe you wonder things like:
- Am I making the correct choices in terms of the big picture plan?
- Am I setting myself up for success, or for failure, yet I don’t realize that is the case?
- I am attracted to content writing and marketing [or writing for magazines, or editorial websites, or Instagram], but is the right for me?
- What will earn me the best money for the time I’d have to put in with the skills I have?
- What’s the best path to take at this very moment?
These are real and serious impediments!
All the websites she found on freelance travel writing either told her:
- it’s incredibly difficult and you shouldn’t bother (a bit like the advice you get from lawyers when you say you want to go to law school)
- you can’t make any money doing it (see issue #1)
- how to write artful travel essays of a literary quality that you’ll spend years trying to publish because very few places publish artful, narrative travel writing (see issue #1 again)
Our entire focus is on helping you do what is right for you. That includes:
- Figuring out what your dream really looks like.
- Outlining the steps between where you are now and where you want to be.
- Equipping you with everything you need to get from here and now to there and then.
Our coaching, classes and programs, and live events are all designed tightly around these steps.
We also weave these eight values through everything that we do:
- We believe that freelance travel writing is a financially, emotionally, and creatively sustainable lifestyle choice, and all of our products and services are designed to create lasting results.
- We don’t believe large instructor-to-student ratios create tangible results, and we are committed to only offering small group and one-on-one sessions.
- We place an incredibly high value on holistic, lifestyle solutions that guide you through the personal and professional plateau points inherent in pursuing this professional path.
- We only provide researched, step-by-step processes that are proven to create sustainable results when executed.
- We strongly believe that the number one way to expand one’s portfolio and increase one’s travel writing income is targeted, consistent pitching, and we are committed to rigorously improving that process for all of our users.
- We are committed to helping you navigate the difficult path of running a freelance business, which is not for everyone, to discover which route you personally need to be on and only take the best steps for your needs, background, and situation.
- We focus on the psychological and business barriers that prevent people from creating their ideal travel writing lifestyle rather than the travel itself.
- We are committed to making sure our writers finish what they start.
