Become A YourLifeIsATrip.com Contributor

Thank you for your interest in writing for YourLifeIsATrip.com.

As a group blog featuring different voices and different points of view around the common theme of travel, we're looking for writers who possess a unique voice and compelling experiences. Writers with the ability to craft articles that are both personal and relevant to a diverse readership.

Let us tell you a little more about YourLifeIsATrip.com.  

It is basically about how life is travel and travel is life. 

You can walk outside your door and have an adventure.

You can go to Paris and spend a day learning how to bake a baguette.

You can talk to a street person in Albania and discover something about streetcars and about life.

It’s an attitude...that life and travel are not different. Life is travel. Travel is life. 

This is not a site for destination pieces (unless a really wild destination) or for guidebook-like entries. These are not service pieces.  We’d like to run stories/essays about some aspect of life and travel and where the two meet. Focus on one aspect of an experience. Let your creative juices flow.

How does your experience in life or on the road impact you--does it make you angry? Frustrated? Enlightened?

Take clichés or commonplace phrases and twist them to make them unique.

Know how to take things that everyone sees on a daily basis --things that are quotidian and hardly worthy of notice to most people--and focus on their singularity, beauty or absurdity. Things that others take for granted, spin it into a story. Make the commonplace extraordinary-the way good comedians or photographers or storytellers do.

Maybe you want to write about a trip to southern Israel and Gaza, and what the current situation triggers for you. 

Right now, we want to find people who are of like mind and can be creatively free to write for the site.

The pieces can be funny, crazy, serious, inspirational, meditational (i.e. how a piece of amber sold in a shop in the Caribbean is a dead insect trapped). There is no formula. We want you to find your own voice within this context and we want to have distinctive and different voices.

We want to work with people who see life through different eyes.

This is not just about travel. It’s about attitude.

Write in lst or 3rd person, it doesn't matter, but write something original that doesn't exceed 1,000 words. 800 is ideal.

You are not just going through life as an observer…you are a participant.  And yet, you are not self-indulgent. This is why we chose you. You bring awareness and consciousness to events. 

What the Huffington post does for politics, we would like to do for the trip of life. Different voices. Different subjects. All related by the common theme--life is a trip. A trip is life.

We have to ask for exclusive web rights so that we can say the pieces are only found on this site. 

Of course you can write 50 other stories about your trip to blogonowicki.... or your daily adventures with your neighbor…. but what you write for us has to stand alone on YourLifeIsATrip. 

We are sort of inventing this as we go, so we will find many ways this can benefit everyone.

If we could explain it in 8 words, those words would be: it's about the experience, not just the destination.

In your pieces you can hyperlink to convention and visitors' bureaus or pertinent websites. You don't have to list them at the end of your story.

At the end of your story, in the INFO box, hyperlink to your own website, so our site drives traffic to yours.

Choose a short title that tells what the subject is--if possible, in a clever way.

How will this benefit you? YourLifeisATrip.com is a place where you can write and publish the stories you want to write.

You can post when you feel like it. If you and YourLifeIsATrip.com are a good fit, then you be able to post by yourself, without going through us. We will give you an "entry."

We will provide you with a platform and exposure.

We can give you assignment letters if you need them.

We provide you with an online resume for a different type of writing.

You can be part of something new that is really tailored to the way the web works today.

This is a place for you to try out new things…to innovate…a litmus test for your new work…

Thoughts? Ideas? Additions? We would love you to do this...

Let the trip begin,

Judie Fein and Ellen Barone

Click here to submit your ideas.