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What’s a Swipe File?

comp3_keyboardby Joe Wallace

I’m still reporting from the road, stopped in a Starbucks in Texas for a quick refill and update. The road warrior must have caffeine!

Believe it or not, it IS possible to get other freelance work done when you’re travel writing and blogging, but it’s not easy. I tend to save my actual work for when I’m off the road, but traveling does provide some great inspiration for queries and that’s what I concentrate on when I am mid-trip. It just doesn’t pay to torture yourself with deadlines when you’re on the go if you can avoid it.

But what do you do when highway hypnosis lulls your brain into that fuzzy-headed stupor and you can’t come up with any ideas to pitch or write about? Continue reading What’s a Swipe File?