Archive for September, 2006

Reading it Out Loud

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Story not working? Read it out loud.
A little less than a year ago, I was working on a very important story for a very important magazine. The piece had involved some travel, and by the time the deadline arrived, my photographer and I were already behind schedule, had been through one major rewrite, and knew […]

Anthology Publishers: The Bad Guys?

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

I’m confused. Seriously, there’s something I don’t understand, and I’d like someone to help me see why this is such an issue. You may not know this, but I’m a big fan of anthologies. I read them, I write for them, and one of the highs of my life has been being published in a […]

Three at a Time

Monday, September 25th, 2006

I rarely come up with a single idea. I come up with them in multiples of three. That’s because I take the initial spark of an idea and try to transform it into something that would fit into a number of different magazines. So my query on how busy women can keep fit won’t just […]