“Title your story with a numbered list of things to do or see and it will help sell your travel article.” At least that was what Doug, the writing instructor told me a couple of years ago in a semester-long college course for wannabe writers on how to get published, primarily, in magazines. (Historical note: a couple of years ago there were probably a lot more magazines to get published in . Besides, it’s not that I’m not good enough or too lazy to make the effort, there’s just all this blogging, and Facebooking, and Tweeting to be done.) Scan a rack of magazines and you will likely see dozens of examples, such as, “10 ways to guarantee that sexy blonde at the bar will go home with you tonight.” or, in the case of a travel-related story, “20 secret beaches that no one in the world knows about.” (I used to see that last one a... [read full story]
