Saturday, January 8th, 2011
From Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing: Chapter 16: Writing Article Leads. Read all excerpts from the book here
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Chapter 16: Writing Article Leads
If you take time to produce a detailed query letter, you will often find your lead, the beginning of your article, is in your query. It ...
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010
From Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing: Chapter 14:20 Rules for Writing Query Letters. Read all excerpts from the book here
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Chapter 14: 20 Rules for Writing Query Letters
Newspaper and magazine editors receive more query letters than they can use. They quickly toss most of them. Why? The query ...
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
From Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing: Chapter 11: Querying Editors: Overview. Read all excerpts from the book here
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Chapter 11: Querying Editors: Overview
At this point in the book, you should have some sense of the following:
• what freelance writers do
• what editors expect
• how to develop ideas
• how ...
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
From Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing: Chapter 9: Discovering More Article Ideas. Read all excerpts from the book here
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Chapter 9: Discovering More Article Ideas
While you can generate scores of article ideas through clustering, it is good to look at external sources for article idea inspiration as well. ...
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Sunday, November 21st, 2010
From Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing: Chapter 8: Article Ideas: Developing Your Own. Read all excerpts from the book here.
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Chapter 8: Article Ideas: Developing Your Own
Now that we know how to cluster, let’s apply it and develop article ideas. But first: have you done your analytical-reading exercise? ...
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Saturday, November 13th, 2010
From Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing: Chapter 7: Clustering Introduction. Read all excerpts from the book here
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Chapter 7: Clustering Introduction
So now you know you might have to write 50 or more articles per year if you want to earn a decent living as a freelance writer. While ...
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
I thought I'd share the preface to Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing here. I'll be sharing other chapters from the book over the next month or so. You can read all excerpts from the book here.
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Welcome to Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing , a ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Below are the sample query letters Paul Lima read excerpts from on Thurs. May 22 when he spoke at "The Nuts and Bolts of Freelance Writing for Newspaper and Magazines", presented by the Toronto Chapter of The Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC). The first query is a composite. ...
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