I hear it a lot from writers: They’ve finally broken into the national magazines, but no matter what they pitch, the editors ask them to write it up in 250 words — or less. These writers are stuck in the FOB (Front of Book) section and are looking for ways to break into the feature …
Aug 30, 2010 Advice, Query letters, Writing
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called The Dark Side of Diversifying, about how over-diversifying your career can make you feel scattered and at loose ends. As I mentioned, I work on a TON of projects: I write for magazines and corporate clients, write and market books, teach e-courses, do phone mentoring, …
Aug 23, 2010 Motivation, Observations, Organization, Personal yammerings, productivity
Here’s a query that landed an assignment with Better Health & Living Magazine (which is sadly now defunct). Notice how I included research and quotes, but gave only quick explanations of each tip. In the article itself, I went into greater detail on the research and the advice.
My article idea was originally called “Choose …
Aug 19, 2010 Query letters
I offer to answer freelance writers’ burning questions on the blog. (By the way, if you have a question you’d like me to answer, you can send it to lindaformichelli@gmail.com.) Have a lot of questions? I’m offering a 10% discount off my phone mentoring services through August 20.
Here’s Shaundra’s question: “Is it worth creating a …
Aug 16, 2010 Advice, Marketing, You Ask, We Answer
I offer to answer freelance writers’ burning questions on the blog. (By the way, if you have a question you’d like me to answer, you can send it to lindaformichelli@gmail.com.) Have a lot of questions? I’m offering a 10% discount off my phone mentoring services through August 20.
Here’s Mark’s question: Here’s what happened. I called …
Aug 11, 2010 Advice, Ideas, Marketing, You Ask, We Answer
