Many people think they’d love to write for major magazines. The trouble is, most of these people never spend the time, energy, and even money learning HOW to break in with these markets. Here are a few tips to help you write for magazines and build a lucrative freelance writing career: • Learn how to write a winning query. You may think you know how to write a great query, but if your queries are not landing you at least a few writing assignments, then you’re definitely missing the mark somewhere. A winning query does more than let the editor know your idea for an article. You need to hook the editor with your query the same way you will hook his/her readers with your article. • Learn how to study the magazine markets. There is so much more to studying the markets than merely looking up the entry for a particular magazine in a current market guide. Find out how to effectively study the markets. • Provide editors with information and contacts they cannot easily find on their own. This is not as difficult as it might seem, and it’s one way to prove to an editor that […]
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