How To Earn a Living Writing Magazine Features
If you've ever bought a copy of Cosmo, She or Bella - or any other magazine - and thought "I'd love to write for magazines like this and get paid for it", this is the course for you.
This 30 day ecourse covers eveything you need to launch yourself as a freelance features writer:
1. Getting started -defining what you can offer and identifying your target market.
2. How to read with an eye to getting published.
3.Getting organised - practical tips to help you come up with ideas and organise your approach.
4. Research tips.
5. How to tune into the language of your chosen niche.
6. Finding the right contacts, and choosing your loyalties - which publications should you work with?
7. How to make the initial contact.
8. How to put a synopsis together.
9. How to sell you as well as your ideas.
10. Are exclusives worth it?
11. Chasing up when you haven't heard anything - the etiquette.
12. Fees - what to ask for.
13. Contracts, electronic rights and copyright.
14. How to look like a professional.
15. Before you start your article.
16. Personal Articles
17. Interviews
18. How To Articles
19. Your article - extras.
20. How deadlines work.
21. Accompanying photographs and illustrations.
22. Perfectionism - the good, the bad and the ugly.
23. Kill Fees.
24. How to use the same article for a number of publications.
25. Going back for more.
26. Using your writing to promote your business.
27. The importance of meeting the press.
28. Writing for the internet.
29. Professional organisations that may be worth joining
30. Long term writing strategy.
The course lasts 30 days and there are plenty of practical exercises which you can complete and send to us. There is absolutely no time limit on this course, so you can read and complete your exercises straight away or take your time and get them over to us when you are ready.
By the end of the ecourse, if you do the exercises set you will:
* Have identified your target publications.
* Know who you are going to contact.
* Have identified a number of possible articles for those publications and written a synopsis for them.
* Have a long term strategy of where you want your writing career to go and how you'd like to get there.
You may have sent those ideas out, and even started to receive interest or commissions.
There's also plenty of opportunity for advice and feedback on anything you have written and we offer a money back guarantee. If, within 90 days of starting the course, you do the ecourse, completing all the exercises, and still feel that you haven't got the tools, knowledge and support that you need to make it as a freelance writer, then we will refund your money, no questions asked. So, there's absolutely no risk!
The ecourse is written and run by Paula Gardner. In the past 18 years Paula has written for New Woman, the Stage, Junior, Weightwatchers.co.uk, www.madaboutwine.com, Just Seventeen, The Local Government chronicle, South Wales Argus, French Magazine, TNT, Ms London and Girl About Town, and Female-First amongst others. She now combines freelance writing with editing www.chicklit.co.uk and running www.doyourownpr.com.
Whether you're serious about writing for a living, or would like to contribute articles and features as a lovely way to earn extra money, or promote your own business, this course is an invaluable investment. |
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