Travel writing's biggest myth (and why everyone is lying)

speckx 21 points 1 comment April 10, 2026
denisecullen.com.au · View on Hacker News

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Slow_Hand

This piece is fine but one of the sections, entitled 'Why people lie about it' includes this line: > If you’re selling a travel writing course, a mentoring program, a mastermind group, or a book about how to break into this competitive industry, the implicit promise is that you’ve cracked it. You’re selling the dream that full-time travel writing is achievable and sustainable and wonderful and – hey presto! – you are living proof. ...and after the article concludes very next thing is: > While you’re here … I invite you to sign up for my free 5-day writing course called Unlock Your Creative Flow. One email, once a day, for five days, plus a follow-along workbook containing further space for reflection. You’ll also join the list to receive my (semi-regular) newsletter. Sign up now! I guess I appreciate the honesty of this article, but the whiplash from this juxtaposition hurts. Clearly not intentional from the author, but I can't think of a more tone-deaf pitch in this context of this piece.

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