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Advantages of writing for magazines.
– Your name shows up on the browser under your name
– There are 7000 in print magazines.
– You can connect readers; people may search you out from your timeline.
– Position you as an expert on toxic.
– It has a quick turn around
– Can see your name n print 4-6 months later. A book can take years to get into print.
– You get to meet great new people with quotes or experts in our research.
– You may bet experience you would have had.
– You can work from home or other places. From your computer
– You get paid to write.
– You want to shoot from $50 for an article to $2. Per word.

What does it take to be a successful article reader?
– Persistence
– If you send to an agent and they say no you’re done with that contact. If you send an edit and they say no to an edit they say no, that is not just for that article. You need to keep going
– Need to have knowledge of the process.
– 1. You write the query first. 95% of the time then submit to the editor, when they say yes> then write the article.
– 2. Challenge is writing an effective query letter.
– 3. Do your homework, research to make sure you send work to the correct place. Look at the demographics, average age of the reader, gender, household income, hobbies.
– Look t the advertisement will give you a hint of who reads the articles.
– 4. Types of auricles. Do they have a long feature, do they have rounds up. Do they have how-to? For kids to they have puzzles. What type of articles?
– 5. What is the tone of the magazine?
– 6. Look t what has been published recently. Some magazines are very nitch. I.e.; writer magazine, dialog, characterization, etc.
– 7. Looking at solid writing skills.
Writing an effective query letter is essential.
– You have 10 seconds to impress an edit. Show them you have a decent knowledge of your topic. And say why you’re the perfect person to say it.

How to come up with solid ideas.
– Ideas are all around us.
– One article volunteer at daughter’s school.
– Spend two days doing fly fishing. She got excited. Wrote a lot of pieces on the topic. Take about colutne3er, program at school, and easy.
– Using our life as an inspiration.
– Hobbies and interests
– Organizations or travel. Don’t’ forget what is in our neighborhood or state.
– Occupations in the past
– Expertise outside of your job.
– Do you play sports or an instrument? What different skills you have.
Is there any cause you are passionate about?
– What new items are you interested in.
– Favorite holidays or events that your children are interested in, a family tradition.
– Do you have a good solution on how to handle a problem? Relay a way to resolve a family issue.
– Ask someone what are your top three skills. They may tell you stuff you dint’ realize.
– Write what you want to know.

Media kit:
– This is a kit for prospective advertisers. That can be useful to you on articles. If you write an article that meets with the advertise the magazine might ask an advertiser if they want an ad in the middle of the article?

Other ideas:
– If you borrow info from blogs it could be considered a reprint.
– People will search their email pitches to see what to present in a magazine (maybe make sure the subject line features it.
– Big-name magazines get more flooded of subs than small pubs. Some of the smaller ones still pay well. Cosco pays $1 a word.
– Look at rights to see if a tory can be republished.
– You can learn about things
– When she started she did thinks she was interested in.
– If you want to build a platform then specialize more than concentrating your articles on those topics.

Find out what you enjoy writing about.
– If you want to be a general article writer, then diversify your subject matter.
– Fiction subs provide a cover letter, article you do a pitch.
– The blueprint does discuss rights and discusses concentrate.
– As a teacher and mother, she would do weekends an do one article at a time.
– If you want to do an interview get permission first.
– Do you need to send out writing samples.> not too often. Or published requests have them listed on our website.
– To find magazines you can do a “google parent magazines” if focus on the region, you tighten your search.
– To shoot for a new market, will rad different article an old issues, etc.
– Some magazines request specific articles. The magazine may have a theme list.
– Ideas are not copied writable.
– You can change one article to have a different emphasis through a rewrite.