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Freelance Writing Leads: Writing Contests at Trazzler.com

Posted on 26. Jul, 2009 by Writer in On Writing

“Virtual Teleportation” – that’s what the developers are calling it. Trazzler is a relatively new website that simply helps you figure out where to go. As both a Facebook application and a standalone website, Trazzler helps you determine where to go based on your travel personality.  Trazzler uses the results of your travel questionnaire and the characteristics of trips added to your wishlist to offer personalized recommendations for your next weekend getaway or dream vacation.

Trazzler ‘trips’ feature a specific snippet of a travel location such as a hiking trail or restaurant or festival. See some of our favorite trips here:

• Taking a Pit Stop in Moab, UT
• Crazy Art in Spain
• Sleeping Hammock Style in Costa Rica
• Bizarre-o Finlandian Competitions

After browsing some trips and getting an idea of the Trazzler writing style – individuals can contribute their own trips and be considered for freelance work.  The trips are super fun to write and make for very professional looking clips.

Trazzler runs monthly contests centered around a theme and I was lucky to score a freelance contract from the April contest.  The current contest is for $10,000 and a writer-in-residency contract in New York City (submissions due by August 17, 2009).  I am definitely going to try my hands at this contest and my head has been swarming all day with ideas for the newly announced “Oasis” theme.  In addition to monthly contests, Trazzler hires at least 10 writers to write blocks of trips with contracts awarded from $250 (for ten trips) or $500 (for twenty trips).

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