It’s Okay to Be a Poser While You Learn to Write Well
Everybody feels like they are a fake when they jump out of their comfort zone
I’ve been writing about travel for more than 30 years. A few years back, an editor called me a “kickass freelance writer” in front of an entire writing conference. That was the day I truly quit feeling like a poser. Until then it was touch and go.
Total poser
My first press trip for Yahoo Travel was a pretty big deal. Hubs and I went to Milan to preview Expo Milano 2015 while it was in the final construction phase. (Expos are what we would call the “World’s Fair” in the states; pretty much everybody else in the world calls it an Expo.)
We were on the first press trip to the site. As in, no other journalists had been invited by the Expo peeps. At all. And there were only three Americans invited — me, Gary, and a food writer from National Geographic Traveler. There were journalists from Italy, Germany, Russia, and France — all representing top-tier publications.
I felt like a total poser when the email from my editor hit my phone on a Sunday afternoon while I was on a road trip with two friends shopping/researching a story at IKEA (yes, I actually wrote How to Do All Your Travel Shopping at IKEA). I read and re-read the…
