Archive for May, 2008

AMOM: Day 19: Pitch Your Dream Market

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

That dream market? You know the one that arrives every month in your mail? The one whose pages you touch lightly, turning them carefully as you read every line, every paragraph, every advertisement? You know that magazine that makes your knees go weak every time you think of having your name in it? You know […]

AMOM: Day 18: Reslants

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

One idea, many target audiences. I’m a big believer in milking an idea for all it’s got and pitching it to non-competing publications. If I happened to come across new research that linked creativity to motivation, for instance, I wouldn’t just pitch the idea to a writer’s magazine and be done with it. I’d find […]

AMOM: Day 17: Fix a Meeting

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Of the say, 100 writers reading this, 99 will take absolutely zero action on what I’m about to say, even after I’ve made a convincing argument. That one rare person who does, will later write to me and thank me for giving him the best freelancing tip of his career.
So I’m not going to […]