Dear readers and writers of The World Traveler’s Blog,

Thank you for being part of the journey, but our time as a Medium publication nears its end.

From the beginning, our goal was to bring travelers together, to share their stories and everything they love about the world. Starting this project in the middle of a global pandemic was a challenge; but perhaps it gave hope to those now living in a post-normal world to remember the good times before, and dream about what comes next.

We hope that you have shared these ideals with us, and we know that…

Updates and News

Our team has been discussing how to make your experience, as a reader and/or writer, even better and have come up with several updates we need to share:

• The first is for authors
• The second is for readers
• The third is for our patrons (current and future users of our author services)
• The fourth is for any and all members of our community who would like to help us improve

1. New Submission Guidelines

You can head over to our Submission Guidelines article to review any changes you may have missed. The latest changes included these lines that all authors should know and understand:

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Editing and Community

We are midway through our second month after offering the first services to our writers which we announced in this post:

The editorial team at the World Traveler’s Blog would like to extend our deepest thanks to those early adopters who have taken advantage of our professional editing services and priority publishing! These authors have been getting curated left and right while having tighter articles at the same time.

Better for them and better for our publication and its writers. We hope others will also consider joining!

Reviews from our first clients

Two of our clients have provided their feedback on our services and we…

Dear friends of World Traveler's Blog,

Today we have a 👉major announcement👈 to make — a move that will help us all to better achieve our goals as writers. It also moves us one step closer to achieving our vision here at World Traveler’s Blog.

We couldn’t be more excited 🙆‍♂️

For some time now, we have been asking ourselves what writers need and how we could better provide that for them. To this end, we are pleased to announce two massive changes to our community.

The first is the initial release of services (linked and below) for our writers…

Philosophy and Advice

Simplicity, though not traditionally viewed as a virtue, is the greatest virtue of all because it makes practicing every other virtue that much easier.

Balance can be struck, the truth becomes all we need, and our minds become decluttered in proportion to our environments.

Simplicity, otherwise called minimalism or essentialism, can be considered most broadly as that which reduces complexity, confusion, and clutter in both our physical spaces and our emotional lives. This is the minimalist’s strongest trait. By keeping life simple, there is no reason to covet or lust, lie or steal, nor boast or squabble. …

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dear writers and followers of World Traveler’s Blog,

We would like your help welcoming a new editor who has recently joined the World Traveler’s Blog team:

Alex (Be Adventurer)

Well said. There is also a Buddhist saying that goes well with this, "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."

Writing and Self-publishing

Some will insinuate that achieving bestseller status on Amazon books is just gaming the system, but they misunderstand the new rules of self-publishing.

With the advent of Amazon publishing, the game has changed forever. There have always been lists that rank books, but now there are countless categories with ladders to climb. Everyone who sells a book on Amazon is playing the game, the only question is if they are playing to win or just playing for fun.

Being the best seller in a category is really just one more form of marketing, and it’s free; moreover, everyone should be…