Why You Should Keep a Travel Journal
I won’t sugarcoat it: keeping track of what you do when you travel is hard. You’ve got places to see, maps to
Break Into Travel Writing: Detailed Advice on Getting Started Now
Become a travel writer in no time with these hard-earned tips from years of dive travel assignments.
How the Adorable Sea Bunny Became an SEO Goldmine
Why is everyone and their grandmother writing about the sea bunny?
Dived or Dove? That Is the Question
Ah, the English language—a glorious mishmash of borrowed words, baffling idioms, and grammar rules that seem to have been drafted during a
How to Mark Your Bolt Snaps and Double-Enders (So You Know They’re Yours)
As a traveling (and sometimes teaching) diver, one of my biggest gripes is losing double enders and bolt snaps to others. I
Keeping a Log Book: Your Essential Tool for Writing Compelling Travel Articles
Whether you’re diving the beautiful table coral reefs of the Maldives or exploring the bustling street markets of Southeast Asia, every travel
Perfect is the Enemy
Aiming for perfection and then not achieving it is bound to make you feel more like a failure than chipping away at
Success and the Law of Contraction
Of the many things I have learned recently, “The Law of Contraction” is perhaps the most useful and the most easy for
Why You Should Hire an Explorer to Do Your Marketing
When you think of “good marketing” what comes to mind? For me it’s something that makes me stop. Something unique. Something different.
Why I Own 101 Tubes of Scuba Goop
The first time I saw scuba goop was at Dive Club. Every new member gets a tube when they join. It looked
How to Write When You Have No Idea What to Write
Writing is good, right? If you do it, it means you’re a writer. If you don’t, it means you’re a wannabe. Even
How Copying Others’ Writing Can Improve Your Own
I’m a big fan of copying others’ work in order to learn how to do something new, or do something better. I
The Audience and the Author
When I was 14, I wrote Harry Potter fanfiction. I published a chapter about once a week and then waited with bated
Even For Pro Writers No Punctuation is A Okay
My favorite, curl-in-the-couch-and-eat-ice-cream feeling blogs have one thing in common: they almost entirely ignore formal grammar and punctuation rules. They misspell words.
The Impossible Task: “Deep Blogging” on the Go
There are many reasons I’ve written so little on this website, chief of which is that I simply can’t upload a post
Website Traffic on the Brain? Your Writing Sucks
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot more about website traffic. How many people are coming to our site? How many social referrals
The Writer’s Relationship with Time
Yesterday, I came across a letter that Charles Dickens wrote to Maria Winter in 1855 – a woman with whom Dickens had
On Writing
If Maggie Stiefvater (a very famous and brilliant YA author) can reuse Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ title on her own blog, I
Delete: A Writer’s Best Friend
In May 2010, I was 10,000 words shy of completing a 40,000 word dissertation that would culminate in an MA in Fiction
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