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How I Got Into Travel Writing

'It was a great time to get into it - in the early ‘90s, newspapers were mushrooming in size and they needed writers.'
Travel Writer | Welove2ski
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I went to Crete with my girlfriend at the time, and I wrote about that. It was about the time that my dad got published in The Oldie, and I suddenly thought, oh, if he can do it, maybe I could do it? It was a great time to get into it – in the early ‘90s, newspapers were mushrooming in size and they needed writers. And I was happily sitting in a kitchen, hammering away on a typewriter saying: ‘Oh, would you mind if I went and did this for you?’ to the editors. And very quickly, they started writing back and saying: ‘Yes, go on.’ And I was off.

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About the author

Sean Newsom

As well as founding Welove2ski in June 2007, Sean has written about skiing and snowboarding in the British press for 28 years. For the last 20 of them, he’s also been the ski travel editor at The Sunday Times.

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