This week one of my former students let me know that a story idea she’d generated and worked on in my story idea workshop this fall ran in last Sunday’s New York Times and was generating a ton of reader response. (Woo-hoo! She’s the third student of mine to land an assignment with the Times. …
Jan 2, 2012 Advice, Classes, Editors, Ideas, Magazines, Marketing, Networking, Speaking engagements
Thanks to everyone who entered the contest to create the best “opposite” idea. I must say, I got a lot of great entries and it was hard to choose the best one. I was especially impressed with the writers who took on multiple titles (or even all of them!).
But this is the one that …
In my 8-week Write for Magazines e-course (next one starts January 9!), one problem I see with many of my students’ article ideas is that, while they’re solid ideas, they’re basic evergreen ideas without a twist.
An evergreen is an idea that magazines run frequently in some fashion: How to save money, how to lose …
On Monday I posted How to Make Money Writing About Your “Unmarketable” Passion. One commenter wrote that she’s a teacher, and she wanted to know what magazines she could write for other than education and teaching publications.
As writers, we often mistake our medium with our message. This is kind of like believing that a physical …
A lot of my e-course students and mentoring clients have a passion that they want to write about, but that doesn’t lend itself to many paying markets. For example, they may be interested in writing about raising ferrets, designing tree houses, or refurbishing old mandolins for wandering minstrels. Not much of a market for those …
