Financial Freedom: A Guide to Making Money Online from Home https://link.medium.com/hVI1gcvwDCb
#freelance #workfromhome #remotework #copywriting #copywriter #travelwriter #onlinework #workonline #workremote

My latest membership card for the Australian Society of Travel Writers turned up, with a brand-new logo. Very smooth. #TravelWriter

The number of images I had published in 2022-2023 alongside my words continued to bump along the bottom of the graph, but that had nothing to do with the pandemic - publications have long since learned how to source images cheap or free online.

Here's the image chart anyway, for completeness.

#TravelPhotography #Photography #TravelWriter

I was hoping for big things in the post-pandemic restrictions period, but it was still very hard to place travel writing in the financial year just passed (2022-2023); I suspect because publications had a big backlog of articles and not yet a bigger page count. So to my disappointment the annual number of words I'd had published in freelance articles was a little below that of 2021-2022 (and that was a year with lockdowns in it!).

Below is the chart I've kept of my published wordcount since 2009.

Hoping for better in the year to come.

#TravelWriter #TravelWriting

Creating spreadsheets for another financial year. Occurs to me I've been doing this for a while now.

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Feeling pleased with myself, created two new Patreon posts about Far North Queensland during the course of this flight. Inflight wifi (at least on Qantas domestic flights) is getting a lot more reliable.

If you'd like to read those posts when they go live exclusively for my patrons over the next few days, please sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/timrichards

Would love to have you as part of my gang of happy patrons, and patronage starts from a mere $4 per month (you can cancel anytime).

And that means this Saturday you'll discover the story behind this pump!

#Travel #TravelWriting #TravelWriter

@simonvarwell @nerdseyeview And @travelfish. Also I follow the hashtags #TravelWriter and #TravelWriting, so that brings other writers across my path.

Either I'm being a lot wittier and more fascinating than usual, or there's been a big influx of people migrating from Twitter! Have gained many new followers in the past couple of days.

Welcome, all. Note that I also write exclusive posts about travel for the patrons of my Patreon, if you're interested: https://www.patreon.com/timrichards

#TwitterMigration #TravelWriting #TravelWriter

There seems to be a lot of new people on Mastodon, so here's a fresh introduction post.

I'm a freelance travel writer in Melbourne, Australia, often writing about trains. In addition to writing travel articles for various publications, I write about travel regularly at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timrichards

I have two rail travel books currently available:

- Heading South (around-Australia rail trek): https://www.fremantlepress.com.au/products/heading-south

- Ultimate Train Journeys: World (30 great train experiences across the globe): https://www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/bookfinder/book/ultimate-train-journeys_-world-by-tim-richards/9781741177350

I also have a fantasy thriller novel, Mind the Gap, published in ebook form by Harper Collins: https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460704028/mind-the-gap/

And a book about my travels around ex-communist Poland, The Kick of Stalin's Cow: https://www.amazon.com/Kick-Stalins-Cow-Travels-Post-Communist-ebook/dp/B01MS1E44I/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&linkCode=sl1&tag=tiriiwr-20&linkId=d3807b93b510a6db0d4917aa5179aa4b

... and I'm here regularly posting about travel, Melbourne, politics and life. Hope you enjoy Mastodon, let's talk soon!

#Introduction #Travel #TravelWriter #TravelWriting #Fiction #Books cc @bookstodon

Do you have a bucket list? What about shifting that mindset to a whistle list instead. Enjoy #ForgetABucketListTryAWhistleListInstead by #ritamockpike #mockingowlroost #blog #travelforcreatives #inspiration #creativenonfiction #writer #travelwriter #writerscommunity

https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/whistle-list/
(Pictures is a marathon race with the title and byline in white on a blue background.)

Now free for all to read... English is a language which loves variety; hence the pressure on a writer not to repeat the same word. So why are there not enough synonyms?

Weasel words of travel writing https://www.patreon.com/posts/weasel-words-of-80466696

#Writing #TravelWriting #TravelWriter #Language

To all you rail travel fans... I'm off to Portugal tomorrow for a six-week Eurail journey, from there onward to Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.

I'll be catching trains all the way, and sharing the highlights of the trains and cities via three exclusive posts each week for the patrons of my Patreon.

If you'd like to join the gang and follow my epic rail journey, you'd be very welcome! Patronage starts from $4 per month and you can cancel anytime.

See the details and sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/timrichards

#RailTravel #Trains #Train #TrainTravel #TravelWriter #TravelWriting #Europe #EuropeByTrain

Now free for all to read... It's exactly 20 years since we moved into our apartment in Melbourne's city centre. It's been a haven for a travel writer, coming and going.

No place like home https://www.patreon.com/posts/no-place-like-79306930

#Melbourne #Home #TravelWriting #TravelWriter #Australia

Right, today I'm writing a new travel article from my US trip last year. This one's about San Diego. #USA #SanDiego #TravelWriter #TravelWriting

@austrains If you enjoyed my XPT post, please consider becoming a patron of my Patreon.

Aside from receiving shameless flattery from me, patrons have exclusive access to each new post for a month before anyone else can read them. I often write about rail travel, and I'll be writing fresh new posts for my patrons from my upcoming 7-country Eurail trip across Europe.

From $4 per month, cancel anytime - check out the details here: https://www.patreon.com/timrichards

#RailTravel #Train #Trains #Europe #Patreon #TravelWriting #TravelWriter

If you enjoy reading the posts at my Patreon once they've become public, please consider supporting my writing by becoming a patron.

Patrons receive three exclusive posts per week on a variety of travel-related topics. Also they're incredibly good-looking and intelligent (the flattery comes free).

Becoming a patron starts at A$4 per month, and you can cancel anytime. Check out the link for details: https://www.patreon.com/timrichards

#TravelWriting #TravelWriter

Today I'm going to write a new travel article about my Ontario visit last year. If you're patient and keep pitching, eventually all the research finds a home. :)

#TravelWriting #TravelWriter #Canada

Now free for all to read... I've lived in my Melbourne apartment for twenty years, and travelled all over the world in that time. What have I learnt from those travels?

Read "How has travel shaped me? https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-has-travel-78662729

#Travel #TravelWriter #TravelWriting

Pleased to see that 6 of the 10 travel stories on the front page of my website (I always have the Ten Most Recently Published there) are about places outside Australia: http://iwriter.com.au/

Has taken a while to get back to that kind of ratio. Goodbye pandemic!

#TravelWriting #TravelWriter #Travel

Hi all. I have a big Europe train trip coming up, and I'm looking for interesting things to write about in the following cities:

Lisbon
Madrid
Barcelona
Lyon
Venice
Zagreb
Split
Dubrovnik
Belgrade

If you have any ideas, please let me know in the replies. I particularly like themed walking tours, and anything that's off the beaten track (ie not the main tourist attractions that've been written about a million times already).

Thanks!

#JournoRequest #Travel #TravelWriting #TravelWriter