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No Work? No Worries. 8 Ways to Use Downtime to Boost Your Freelance Writing...
By Lisa Evans It happens to all of us: The ebb and flow of freelance work means there are times when we have lots of assignments on our plates and times when our inbox is empty. Sometimes it can seem...
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How to Organize the Writing Samples on Your Writer Website
By Bree Brouwer You’ve done it! You’ve worked your butt off sending out pitches, LOIs, and completed articles to the point that you now have writing samples and clips to show for all your effort. You...
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You Ask, I Answer: How Many Queries Do I Need to Send Out Per Week?
By Linda Formichelli During a Freelance Writers Den free teleseminar I hosted a few weeks ago, one caller asked: How many queries do I need to send out each week? This has got to be one of the top...
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What I Learned About Running a Freelance Writing Business from Shark Tank
By Lisa Evans I’m a sucker for reality shows. Not the ones with twenty-five sleazy women throwing themselves at a man for a rose, nor the drama of the self-obsessed Kardashians, or who slept with whom...
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How to Get Editors to Break Their Own Rules — and Be Glad They Did
By Sue Campbell We renegades embrace rule breaking. Sending longer than usual queries, going over or under word count, finding work via Twitter: we don’t subscribe to old formulas about what works in...
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Think you should never call an editor? We call B.S.!
Think you should never pick up the phone and call an editor? We’re here to put this myth ro rest. Here, an excerpt from the new Kindle version of our cult writing classic The Renegade Writer: A Totally...
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The Story of How I Went from Broke Wannabe Writer to Living the Freelance Life
By Linda Formichelli I always knew I wanted to be a writer. Yet I ended up in a Master’s program in Slavic Linguistics at UC Berkeley. (And yes, I did love it!) Then I had to make a choice: Do I want...
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4 LOI Mistakes That Will Cause a Prospect or Editor to Trash Your E-mail
By Linda Formichelli A good Letter of Introduction (LOI) is a powerful way to build relationships with editors and prospects and get gigs. The bad news is — many writers are missing out on a great...
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Why You Shouldn’t Create Your Own Writing Samples–And What You Can Do to Get...
By Carol Tice It’s hard to get an assignment from a magazine when you have no previously published articles to show the editor. And it’s hard to get any article clips if you can’t get an assignment....
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How to Fake Your Way Into More Freelance Writing Gigs
By Linda Formichelli Last week I got an email from a lady who said her name, Joan, pegged her as an older writer — and did that mean she was stuck writing for Mature Living magazine? I get this...
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Are You Missing Out On This Vital Freelance Writing Skill? (And No, It’s Not...
I’m going to divulge a major skill you need — and it’s not writing or marketing — to make it as a freelance writer. I’ll preface it with this story… If you know me at all, you know I’m often too nice...
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You Ask, I Answer: How Can I Space Out Article Deadlines?
By Linda Formichelli Emily asks: I have a lot of story ideas and I have a growing list of publications to pitch to, and my plan is to build those pitches prior to October, so that I can start pitching...
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Are You Ignoring These Lucrative Article Markets That Are Right in Front of...
By Linda Formichelli A mentoring client of mine was having trouble figuring out what magazines to pitch on a particular topic. I said, “I know the perfect magazine for you — it’s called USAA.” His...
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Why You Should Write for Free–and Like It
By Linda Formichelli For years I’ve been preaching to new writers: Know what you’re worth! Demand to be paid fairly! Don’t write for free! And now here I am, telling you it’s good to write for free. Am...
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No Clips? Here Are 6 Ways to Convince an Editor to Hire You Anyway
Writers often ask me what to do when their clips are 10 years old, or are on topics that don’t relate to what they’re pitching, or are from non-paying publications. And I tell them, “You gotta use what...
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How to Build a Relationship with an Editor That Will Net You More Assignments
It can seem strange to talk about building relationships with an editor…I mean, they hire you, you do good work, and they hire you again, right? But editors are more likely to hire writers they...
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5 Ways to Fake Confidence in Your Article Pitch
By Diana Burrell You’ve spent hours–nay days–crafting a pitch letter for a dream market. You’ve researched what feels like every back issue of the magazine, and you know in your gut your idea is a...
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2 Ways to Make Sure Editors Are Impressed By Your Clips
By Linda Formichelli You’d think sending an editor a published clip or two would convince them that you can pull off the article you’re pitching. But guess what? An editor may actually be leery of the...
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Do You Have an Editor-Repelling Email Address?
By Linda Formichelli I get a lot of emails from writers. And lately, I’ve been alternately dumbfounded, confused, and frightened by some of the email addresses I see writers using. Addresses like:...
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The One Person Who Rejects You More Than Editors Do
By Linda Formichelli This is a reprint of this week’s Monday Motivation for Writers email. If you’d like goodies like this to land in your in-box weekly, sign up for my mailing list! I’ve had many...
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