We are excited to hear that you want to write for Married with Luggage and our Live the Good Life Movement. Before we dive in we want to give you some guidelines to help ensure your content will fit with our tribe.
Why Write for Us
We continue to grow our audience and have thousands of readers coming to our site each week interested in Living the Good Life. This is a discerning audience taking action and expecting inspiration and guidance as they take a new path through life. If you’re interested in helping this group take a step towards their dream life then keep reading.
What We Want
Beyond anything, we want articles that inspire, motivate, and encourage action. This is a movement after all, so we need big articles to support hard changes. All articles must tie directly to our Live the Good Life Movement and inspire people in one of the following areas:
- Clarify your Mission: What is your legacy, driving force, or purpose? You need inspiration and space to craft this vision so you have a clear goal before you do anything. Action without purpose is just wasted activity. This is the emotional side of living the good life.
- Strengthen the Mind: Creating the good life means agility in thinking, discipline in planning and overcoming the fear, regret and worry. Your mind may be stuck replaying old loops or negative voices. It’s up to you to take control and gear up mentally to take proper action.
- Rally the Tribe: Who is in your life and how will they support your dreams? Surround yourself with positive role-models, cheerleaders and gurus who will accelerate your progress – and lose the energy-suckers and naysayers.
- Nurture the Spirit: This is about centering yourself to silence the fear and regret and start living a life of passion and purpose. It’s about being true to who you are at your core and what moves you.
- Fortify the Body: Being conscious about your physical body creates the stamina you need to achieve your dreams. Proper wellness and self-awareness for the body leads to clarity in the mind. To fuel your dreams, you must first fuel your body!
Each piece must provide practical actions that readers can take away to implement the ideas and strategies identified. We are all about action and want our posts and articles to encourage people to move. In addition, the articles shall inspire people through either your own personal story or through the story of others.
We also appreciate personality, wit, the right touch of humor, and a compelling way to share powerful lessons. The way you impart your wisdom is just as important as what you have to say because it is what will keep people reading.
How to Submit
Please submit your completed, 750- to 1250-word proofed article for consideration to info@marriedwithluggage.com. Please submit in the body of an email or as a Google Doc as we do not accept unsolicited attachments.
In addition, please include a 2-3 sentence author bio with a link to your website you would like included in the posted article.
We will review all submissions based on the criteria outlined here. All articles will be judged on the quality of the piece and fit with our audience, meaning you can write for us if you have a page rank 6 website with tens of thousands of daily visitors or no blog at all. It’s all about good content here and the playing field is level.
Looking forward to reading your submission!
