Freelance writers can decide between submitting a finished article or a query letter to an editor. These days most editors prefer a one-page query letter, usually emailed. But before you pitch any article, you must know what magazines publish your topic.
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How to Generate More, High Quality, Referrals for Your Writing Business
There’s a truth in business and in life – If you don’t ask, you don’t get. It’s no different when it comes to client referrals. But, that asking requires some careful thought and preparation. Learn how to get client referrals in this article.
How to Write Dialogue: 6 Tips for More Believable & Compelling Conversations
There are essential dialogue writing rules to follow if one expects to write a good story. Dialogue is what keeps the story interesting and moving quickly for the reader
Time Management for Freelancers: 7 Proven Tips for Success
According to a 2019 report, 57 million Americans work as freelancers. It’s a lifestyle that comes with lots of flexibility and, with a median hourly wage of $28, the potential to outearn 70% of non-freelancers. However, being consistently productive outside a traditional 9-to-5 office setting doesn’t happen automatically. You must learn how to manage your… Read more →
7 Practical Tips to Start Freelance Writing as a College Student
Want to start freelance writing as a college student? Here are 7 practical tips which will teach you how to get your foot in the door.
Meet the Freelance Writer: Kevin Stewart
Freelance writer Kevin Stewart has more than 1000 published pieces and 200 million views to his name. In our interview, he spills the secrets to his success with countless tips and insights.
Meet the Freelance Writer: Bree Brouwer
Ever want to know what the life of a full-time freelance writer is really like? Freelance writer Bree Brouwer shares insights, tips, and realities about the job.
Meet the Freelance Writer: Samar Owais
Ever want to know what the life of a full-time freelance writer is really like? Freelance writer Samar Owais shares insights, tips, and realities about the job.
Meet the Freelance Writer: Kaitlin Madden
Welcome to our new series, Meet the Freelance Writer! Here, you’ll meet a diverse range of individuals who have carved out a place in the world of full-time freelance writing. In this interview, you’ll find out all about Kaitlin Madden.
Meet the Freelance Writer: Megan Jerrard from Mapping Megan
Welcome to our new series, Meet the Freelance Writer! Here, you’ll meet a diverse range of individuals who have carved out a place in the world of full-time freelance writing. In this interview, you’ll find out all about Megan Jerrard of the travel blog Mapping Megan.
Meet the Freelance Writer: Carrie Smith Nicholson
Welcome to our new series, Meet the Freelance Writer! Here, you’ll meet a diverse range of individuals who have carved out a place in the world of full-time freelance writing. In this interview, you’ll find out all about Carrie Smith Nicholson of Careful Cents.
Meet the Freelance Writer: Elna Cain
Welcome to our new series, Meet the Freelance Writer! Here, you’ll meet a diverse range of individuals who have carved out a place in the world of full-time freelance writing. In this interview, you’ll find out all about Elsa Cain.
32 Tools and Apps Freelance Writers Swear By
The struggles of being a freelance writer are real. Outside the confines of an office job, they are left to their own devices. While it is this very freedom and flexibly that lead many to take on the lifestyle of a freelance writer, the daily pressures of being your own boss can require a hefty… Read more →
Editorial Calendars: Perspectives from Industry Experts
Whether you’re a writer, editor, blogger, or marketer, here’s what the experts say about using editorial calendars. PLUS download a free Editorial Calendar today!
Top 10 Tips to Reply to a CraigsList Job Ad for a Writing Job
In terms of sales and marketing, CraigsList is frequented by many ad agencies which work with Fortune 100 and 500 companies. Find your next job there!
How to Start a Telecommute Data Entry Career
As the name suggests, data entry is encoding data. It seems like an easy job, but the truth is that it requires a high level of accuracy and concentration.
Top 10 Tips to Convince an Editor to Pay You More for Your How-To Article
Learn 10 useful tips to analyze what your skills are worth and how to ask an editor or client for a higher pay rate for your how-to article.
Top 10 Tips to Freelance as a Copywriter for an Ad Agency
Learn about the top 10 tips to freelance as a copywriter for ad agencies. Copywriting jobs from ad agencies pay high rates and offer plenty of work.
Becoming a Freelance or Telecommute Ghostwriter
To succeed as a ghostwriter, you need two important proficiencies upfront: 1) to work discretely; and 2) to work quickly and skillfully.
Becoming a Freelance or Telecommute Magazine Writer
To join the ranks of successful freelance magazine writers, you will need to write on assorted topics and sell your articles to many types of magazines.
Becoming a Telecommute or Freelance Public Relations Writer
Learn how to become a successful public relations writer. We’ll teach you what skill-set you need, where to find PR jobs, and what clients expect from you.
Becoming a Freelance or Telecommute Food Writer
For writers who have a hearty appetite and know how to use words to describe their cravings, writing about food and cuisine might be the right career path.
Becoming a Freelance or Telecommute Resume Writer
Due to the unemployment rate, the demand for freelance resume writers is at an all time high. Learn about the skills required to break into this career.
Becoming a Freelance or Telecommute Writer
If you want to begin a career in telecommuting without needing to spend a lot of money and time, then you should consider freelance writing.
How to Begin Your Telecommute Animation Career
Do you love to tell a story with moving graphics? An animation career gives you an opportunity to share your message in a creative and technological way.
Top 10 Topics to Pitch to Music Magazines
Learn about the hottest topics that music magazine editors frequently want from freelance writers and how to successfully pitch them.
Becoming a Freelance or Telecommute Blogger
You can discover many different ways to earn money with your blog. Here are basic tips to improve your blog’s popularity with a positive user experience.
Top 10 Hot Topics to Pitch to Editors at Arts & Crafts Magazines
The industry of arts and crafts is enormous, raking in 14 billion dollars annually for the United States economy. This also means arts, crafts, and hobby magazines are widely read by enthusiasts. The popular arts and crafts magazines distribute between 150,000 and 175,000 copies per new issue.
Top 10 Hot Topics to Pitch to Editors at Automotive Magazines
Simply put, you already have a large potential audience; the sheer number of auto magazines in the U.S. and loyal readership in the millions make auto-related articles in-demand by editors. But you can also target car shoppers, auto hobbyists, and motorsports fans. The average age varies among magazines, but is between 20 and 50 years old.
Top 10 Hot Topics to Pitch to Editors at Golf Magazines
Because of its huge market, a freelance writer can find several magazines and trade journals covering the addictive sport of golf. You can be a prolific golf writer/freelance writer tackling the following top 10 hot topics.
Top 10 Hot Topics to Pitch to Editors at Health Magazines
Health magazines focus on human health and fitness with an emphasis on living a healthy lifestyle. These magazines usually target individuals who want to prevent lifestyle diseases and medical conditions or who already have them but want to live a healthier lifestyle.
Top 10 Hot Topics to Pitch to Editors at Home Improvement Magazines
Freelancing for home improvement magazines requires you to tap into readers’ desire to improve the appearance and luxuries of their personal living spaces.
The Writing Style of William Shakespeare
Some of the most famous lines in the history of literature come from the writings of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter. The results were plays and sonnets that had ten syllables per line and with his plays, these lines were unrhymed.
Get Help Writing Policies and Procedures Fast
Writing policies and procedures can be an arduous task. Discover the most efficient ways to write your policies and procedures assignment by the deadline.
Writing Sleuths – Pet Detectives
This article defines the role of a pet detective, their skill set and tools, and techniques writers can apply to develop such a character.
Write More, Write Faster – Plan Your Writing For Success
Want to write more and write faster too? Let’s discover the secrets of great writing habits and completely eliminate procrastination and writer’s block.
12 POINT CHECKLIST FOR WRITING FEATURE ARTICLES
Don’t pitch your article without using our checklist. Our 12 point checklist makes sure you have all your bases covered before writing your feature article.
How to Write a Detective Novel
Writing a detective novel requires careful story planning, clues, criminals, and motives. Check out our 13 detective novel building blocks to get started.
Writing a Video Game Script – Write the Game
Writing a video game script is very different to writing a movie script or a novel. Firstly you have to contend with different choices taking you through different routes, and secondly you have to deal with the limitations of game programming.
Opportunities to Write Articles for Sports Magazines
So what sorts of articles are sports magazines looking for? Most publications welcome ideas, feature articles,and reviews from freelance writers.
5 Tips for Writing Authentic Crime and Legal Fiction
To write a good crime story, a writer needs to have credibility. You don’t have to be a cop or lawyer to write about crime or criminal law with authenticity
Writing Children’s Nonfiction For Magazines – Mistakes to Avoid
Generally, it’s easier to sell nonfiction to children’s magazines. Still most writers miss the mark because they overlook these three common mistakes.
7 Steps to Writing Feature Articles That Sell
Our 7 steps is a proven process for researching, writing, and submitting professional feature articles that meet editors’ needs and further your writing career
How to Write for Nostalgia Magazines
There are a number of ways you can construct your writing for nostalgia magazines to make it appealing. You could get together some old pictures and write a story around them. If the pictures are your own – great
How to Write For Women’s Magazines
Although many women’s magazines say that they don’t expect good old-fashioned boy-meets-girl kind of storylines, this type of story is still a favourite. Most stories are quite simple – after all, you just haven’t got time in 1,000 words
The Struggle to Become a Freelance Writer
A year later, things are dramatically different. All the hours and hard work paid off, and I effectively make a minimum of $50.00 per hour for all of the new client work I take in. On a rare occasion, I discount that rate to $25.00 per hour for those clients who started out with me and remained loyal to my services.
3 Common Mistakes to Avoid With Online Writing Jobs
If you want to make money online, writing for the Web can be a rewarding career option. There is little startup cost involved, you often get paid very quickly, and you can see your work published far more quickly than print freelance writers do in many cases.
The Truth About Freelance Travel Writing
Free trips! Exotic vacations! First-class travel, everything paid for! Ah, the life of a travel writer. All you need to do is bang out a few words about it and you’re part of the besotted brotherhood of pampered travel journalists.
5 Ways to Use Flashbacks in Your Fiction Writing
Most people use flashbacks to provide more information about the main character’s past – thereby using this technique as a means to explain why certain events are happening, or how / why a character is acting or responding in a particular way.
The Basics of Technical Writing
Technical writing is purposeful and usually intended to solve a problem for a specific audience.Learn about the seven principles of technical writing.
Why Web Copywriting Is Like Plastering
Like plastering, there are a few tricks of the trade when it comes to copywriting. Here are five reasons why you should hire a professional web copywriter.
Why Social Media is the Most Convenient Way to Market Brands
In social media marketing, communication and collaboration with the Internet users plays a vital role in marketing ones brand. Some important tools of communication and collaboration in social media marketing are as follows.
Succeeding as a Health and Fitness Writer
Whether you want to (or already do) write health or fitness articles for your local newspaper, a widely popular national magazine, your website, or all of the above, consider these tips for ensuring your writing success
10 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask About Freelancing
Freelancing occurs when someone offers his or her services for an agreed period in return for a fee. Freelancers (also known as contractors or service providers) are independent of the businesses or individuals that hire their services.
10 Steps for Writing a Magazine Query
A query letter is a sales pitch: your goal is to convince the editor that your article idea is of interest to her readers and that you are the best person to write it.
The Hero Journey Motif As a Tool for Reading and Writing
Quite often teachers in middle school and high school find themselves teaching the grade level language arts curriculum from a conservative and sometimes minimalist point of view. What that means is that many follow generic lesson plans devised by a team, a textbook company, or themselves that cover only the very basic or minimal reading comprehension and writing skills.
Test Your Proofreading Skills: Complete This Exercise
Many proofreading exercise make the mistake of confronting the trainee proof reader with errors in abundance. Every other line contains a spelling error, grammatical gaffe or stylistic slip-up. In reality, however, you’re unlikely to find more than two or three errors
Proposal Writing Samples Don’t Tell the Whole Story
Proposal writing samples or examples you find in a web search seem to offer a quick and easy way to prepare a proposal
How Your Query Letter Can Land You The Assignment
Before you ever send a query letter to an editor, you need to first READ the magazine. If you’re writing an article about mountain climbing don’t send it to a writer’s magazine or a tech magazine.
Don’t Fall Into a Query Letter Quandary!
He wrote the book on how to write killer query letters. In this interview, author John Wood shares his knowledge based on 17 years of working as an editor.
Should You Quit Your Job for a Freelance Career?
Between writing articles, researching new assignments and invoicing for completed work, it will be well past midnight before you can even think of going to bed. How much longer can you keep this up, you wonder?
Ghostwriting Tips: Selling Yourself in a Virtual Market
One of the most important skills you need as a ghostwriter selling yourself in a virtual market is strong computer skills. You need to know more than the most popular word processing programs, you need to know additional software programs
SEO Article Writing 101
SEO writing is very different from content writing, article writing, story writing and news writing.
How to Use Weather to Set the Scene
The weather is so much more than how wet you’re getting. It’s amazing how many writers overlook the weather as a useful tool in both setting and also in telling the story
6 Important Tips for Magazine Article Writing
Make sure to choose a topic that you’re an expert on or you feel interested in. You’ll most likely to produce high quality magazine articles if you choose topics that are included in your areas of expertise and areas of interest.
Medical Writing – How Much Should I Charge For My Freelance Projects?
If you are wondering how much you should charge for your medical writing freelance writing, this article will run you through all the factors to consider.
Memoir Writing Help, Memoir Writing Ideas
Here are a few prompts to stimulate your memory and to encourage your creativity…of which you have plenty to work with and to share.
News Writing Bloopers: 4 Common Journalism Mistakes
News writing is supposed to be the embodiment of perfectly produced prose. However, the reality is that it is the source of more grammatical, contextual and typographical mistakes
9 Steps to Write the Best Short Story
Whenever I begin a short story, I remind myself of two things: to try to get in touch with readers’ senses as much as possible by writing something to see, hear, touch, smell, taste, and feel (emotionally), and to try to keep nine points, specifically, in mind when writing my story in hopes of composing a tightly-written story that sticks in readers’ minds. Those nine points are as followed
Oil and Gas Writers: 4 Secrets For Success
Writing for the oil and gas industry is different than typical marketing or business writing for the following reasons:
Plotting in Storytelling
And if there are no rules, why on earth would anyone want to write about the writing process? If there are no rules, what is the point in scripting an article such as this one?
6 Reasons Prose Writers Should Attempt Poetry
As part of my MFA program, I was told I had to take a class outside of my comfort zone, which happens to be in fiction. I signed up for a poetry class not expecting to like it
Power Writing Skills: What’s Your Readability Score?
You may write fine memos, reports, or literally any other kind of document. But, if no one reads what you�ve written, there is no chance you�ll get your audience to respond
4 Guidelines to Power Social Brand Building
Public relations specialists were among the first few to understand the power of social media, making them leaders in the social space. Along with handling website content, more and more PR pros are responsible for their company’s and clients’ social media presence.
Learning Communication Skills In the Military
I recently had the pleasurable challenge of working with seven Navy SEALs on communication skills. They were fine young men, and their writing and presentation skills varied based on their educational level, from a GED to a college degree
How to Write a Successful Query
As editors become increasingly swamped with inappropriate manuscripts, more and more publications are closing their doors to unsolicited submissions.
How to Write an Article for a Student Magazine
Here’s how to write an article for a student magazine that really sings, drawing on your own experience to provide interesting first hand material.
How To Write Follow-Up Articles For News Outlets – 3-Step Guide
If you have a good story that is relevant to the issue, provides fresh perspective and is different from what the news outlet or any of their rivals are likely to have, then you have an excellent chance of seeing your byline the next day.
How To Write Like A Journalist – 4 Key Elements
In a hard-hitting news story, there is no room for opinion, advice, humor or commentary. Most importantly, you should dispense with flowery writing and twinkling prose.
How to Write News Articles for Your Local Newspaper: 4 Things Freelancers Must Know
The key to freelance journalism is to keep plugging away with quality work so that the editor will always have time for you.
7 Important Tips in Business Writing
Letter writing is a form of communication. Thoughts, feelings, opinions and intentions are written clearly so that the reader will fully understand what exactly you wish to say
5 Ways to Increase Your Value As a Ghost Writer
Passion for what you do keeps you going when the job is tough. It’s an important component to life as a ghost writer. Yet, passion without the skill to discover what your client needs is economically valueless. You must have the skill to see what your client’s wants and needs are.
How to Write an Informative Restaurant Review
Writing a restaurant review is a fun way to share your thoughts and impressions about your dining experience. To write an informative review, you need to have knowledge about what key points you should include in your review.
Inspired by JK Rowling – How Do Generation Y Writers Make Big Money?
It starts off with a book, an adventure, and then as a young person you want to read more and more adventures, be it Harry Potter or any other kind of fantasy, sci-fi, young-adult, urban and so on.
A Creative Problem-Solving Tool for Journal Writing
If you have problems – and let’s face it – we all do, then journal writing can serve as a creative problem-solving tool.
5 Steps to Start Journaling For the Health of It
For most of us, there’s a lot more going on inside our minds and bodies than we let on. We may carry ourselves with the utmost confidence, when in reality we feel like a mess.
Traveling Jobs – Learn How to Write Travel Articles and Holiday Reviews
A dream of many writers is to get traveling jobs and travel for free. In this article you can learn how to write great travel articles and holiday reviews..
How Much Money Can A Writer Earn?
One question that everyone always wants to know is how much money can you earn as a writer? Read these tips on how you can maximize your earning potential.
How Much Should a Book Editor Charge?
Although rates vary from one book editor to another, here are the standard prices book editors charge for editing pieces.
How Much Should a Freelance Writer or Blogger Charge?
With time and experience, a freelancer will become familiar with the field. How much do you need to charge? Read this article for general guidelines.
How to Become a Food Critic
There is only one job that will marry your love for fine cuisine with your impressive written communication skills and cutting wit. Here’s how to do
How to Become a Magazine Writer – My Four Best Tips
Do you want to write for magazines? Here are 4 need to know tips on how to make money writing for magazines as a career.
How to Bid on Freelance Writing Jobs Through Online Marketplaces
Professional freelance writers usually use five steps to generate a steady flow of work. Here’s how you can increase your chances of successful bidding.
How to Break Into Magazine Writing
Thinking of getting into a career in magazine writing? Linda Formichelli offers three expert tips on how to break into the magazine industry.
Freelance Writing Advice – How to Build Your Portfolio When You’re Starting Out
New to Freelance Writing? Here are some helpful tips on how to create a portfolio when you are trying to establish yourself as a writer.
How to Find the Highest Paying Freelance Writing Jobs Online
The following article gives some need-to-know tips on how to find the highest paid freelance writing jobs online, and how you can make more money writing.
How to Journal – Where to Begin
The keeping of a personal journal has been a pursuit of human society for many hundreds of years. Here’s how to start writing your journal today.
Five Tips for a Successful Music Review
Writing an informative and captivating music review can be a challenging task. Here a 5 helpful tips to writing a successful music review.
Don’t Lose Readers, Get the Narrative and Dialogue Balance Right
A good story deserves a good narrative-to-dialogue balance to keep your audience enthralled and turning those pages. How do you get the balance right? Read the following article to find out how.
4 Tips to Improve Your Ghost Writing Career
Are you having trouble getting your ghost writing career off the ground? Here are four tips that ghost writers can’t live without.