So who here is participating in National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) starting tomorrow?
Gulp. I am. I can’t believe I’m doing this, considering I’ve got a bunch of other projects begging for attention, but I’ve had a story idea nipping at my heels for the last year and I want to explore it. What better …
Oct 31, 2008 Writing
The second session of my story idea workshop begins this Monday, November 3, so if you need a kick in the pants to generate some good story ideas, you might want to consider signing up. If you can’t do the November session, then I’ve scheduled two more, one starting December 1 and the other on …
This post is by Monica Bhide, who teaches our Introduction to Foodwriting course.
My email box has been overflowing with messages from friends, students, strangers all worried about the economy. If you think fear is a great motivator, forget it — in these emails I am seeing signs of panic. People are getting paralyzed with fear …
Oct 29, 2008 Advice, Marketing, Self improvement, Writing
If you’re getting started as a freelancer, these are the tools you’ll need to develop to get magazine work.
The Query Letter
If you’re a magazine writer, the query is your most basic and indispensable tool for getting new work. While there’s no one right way to write a query letter, the basic components are:
• A lede …
Oct 27, 2008 Writing
A Renegade blog reader had the following situation:
I have a positive relationship developing with an editor at magazine X. She’s assigned several of my queries, and is likely going to assign others from my last batch of pitches. Recently she rejected one of my ideas because “we’ve already got a package in the works on …
Oct 22, 2008 Writing
