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May 20, 2019

Useful Tools for Travel Writers

Travelling writers have a huge advantage over others. Instead of having to sit behind a desk and get only few weeks of vacation every year, they can actually leave everything behind and visit every place they wanted to visit. All they need is a laptop, an internet connection, and the right tools to ease the process.

You can go where you want and live in some place a month or two. It’s a perfect opportunity to discover the culture and get a deeper understanding. Besides, travelling is an endless inspiration for writers. You can start with searching for a perfect place for you on Campstar and open a world of camping for you.

If you are a freelance writer, you surely know plenty of tools and apps to use to make the writing and editing part easier. Still, with the purpose of assisting travelling writers to become more productive during their amazing journeys, we have created a list of 9 top tools that make this possible.

1. Draft

As you are travelling, you will probably create different versions of content. This app allows writers to navigate throughout all stages of their writers with ease, and cut down the time spent on rewriting and organizing the content.

Draft also gives you an advantage of communicating and collaborating with others. For all those who have an editor or collaborator that is not with them on the journey, this is a great way to agree on the content and adjust it during the writing process.

As a matter of fact, this app allows the editor to control your writing, and make suggestions early in the process.

2. Penflip

Penflip is a platform you can use to write projects on, even if you do not have the ‘must-have’ internet connection. The best part is, you can work with this app on the word processor you already use, and download the entire text with a single click. At the end, you get a formatted eBook without the extra trouble or frustration over bad internet connection.

Moreover, Penflip is a great platform for collaboration with your editor or others. This platform allows you to send link to your text, and gain some feedback.

3. Storehouse

Storehouse is an iPod app where you can combine your text with the photos you make throughout the journey. You can now tell a story from your favorite locations in the world by using some creative layouts.

This app also allows you to share the travel journal entries with others.

4. GoodNotes

You are travelling and using a variety of methods of transportation. Whether you are in the train, bus, or in a plane, you probably can’t or do not want to carry all those papers. And yet, you need them for the writing part.

Good Notes is your best solution. This app allows you to take notes on your iPod or iPhone, mark up PDF files, and even sketch. Sounds life saving, right?

5. Shareist

Keeping all platforms and social media channels active at all times is difficult for every writer, but it is especially hard for one that is constantly on the road. Fortunately, this app can help you keep the blogs and email newsletters active, engage your reading audience, and plan and distribute the content on the channels you will select.

6. Shoeboxed

You are travelling, so you would surely enjoy deducted costs, such as hotels and airfare. In addition, dealing with the receipts is very tricky, especially if you are on the road for a long time. Those receipts can easily be printed with the ‘disappearing ink’, or you may lose some along the way.

Shoeboxed is a great app for you. It will help you organize and store this data, as well as create reports for deducting all expenses.

7. WriteRoom

WriteRoom is a word processor that comes in the form of a blank sheet. All you have to do is fill up the blank paper with words. It is pure simplicity, but it actually works. No distractions, no problems.

8. GrammarBase

When you have spent hours travelling, looking into places and things, and on top of it, writing about it, you can easily miss a mistake in your content. What you need is a quick spelling and grammar check of the article. You are in luck, because GrammarBase can correct up to 10 times more errors and mistakes in an article when compared to those usual word processors you use.

That is it – everything you need for your traveling/writing journey. The 8 tools listed above will turn your adventures into a pleasure, and help you be more productive than ever.

Don’t postpone your dream and start to do something right now. Travelling could be the thing that doesn’t happen just a few times, it could be your lifestyle. And it could be wonderful, exiting and easy.

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