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Podcast #17: Starting locally with travel writing “Good things happen if you just get out of bed.” – John Bechtel For more about how you can get started with travel writing today, visit: www.greatescapepublishing.com/travelwriting. On this week’s episode, you’ll hear from Great Escape Publishing travel writing success story – John Bechtel, and how he got started writing locally. John attended the Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in San Diego in 2014. And in just one year, he was asked to come back and speak on the success panel at the 2015 annual event in Denver. “John says he lives in ‘Nowhere’s Ville’ and he questioned the concept taught at the travel writer’s workshop of starting local,” Great Escape Publishing Director Lori Allen says. “Local for John is Minot, North Dakota and he couldn’t imagine finding anything to write about locally.” So he set out to test the theory… and it worked. We hear a funny, entertaining and enlightening clip from John speaking to the attendees at the 2015 Ultimate Travel Wri