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Analysing and deconstructing travel article pitches, to highlight the good and bad bits

Travel writing with heart: Travel Editor Nathan James Thomas on how to get published

Travel writing with heart: Travel Editor Nathan James Thomas on how to get published

December 5, 2025November 25, 2025 James Durston Advanced advice, Critiques, Writing Leave a comment

I talk with Nathan James Thomas, founder and managing editor of the online magazine Intrepid Times, who shares his love of personal stories that go deep into the human experience of travel, and that form connections with people.

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Pitch Pit #5: Shows wheel potential

Pitch Pit #5: Shows wheel potential

July 28, 2020March 28, 2023 James Durston Critiques Leave a comment

A story with excellent potential that I think many publications would be interested in buying, but the pitch needs significant re-working

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Pitch Pit #4: Dead in the head

Pitch Pit #4: Dead in the head

September 16, 2018March 28, 2023 James Durston Critiques Leave a comment

A ghoulish pitch that tells me to be afraid rather than showing me why I should be

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Pitch Pit #3: The over-sensitive writer

Pitch Pit #3: The over-sensitive writer

November 8, 2016March 28, 2023 James Durston Critiques 10 Comments

Did someone kidnap all the headlines? A long-winded food pitch doesn’t sell what could be a nice story

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Pitch Pit #2: Don’t be so generous

Pitch Pit #2: Don’t be so generous

September 5, 2016April 18, 2019 James Durston Critiques 2 Comments

The second Pitch Pit victim ignores my advice about headlines and offers too much.

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Pitch Pit #1: Where’s your head at?

Pitch Pit #1: Where’s your head at?

August 8, 2016April 18, 2019 James Durston Critiques 6 Comments

The first Pitch Pit critique takes a swing at flowery language and hyper-positivism.

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