Free Trade for Writing
If you're getting started as a magazine freelancer or looking to supplement your income while waiting for the fiction to pay off, consider writing for the trades. Trade magazines offer decent pay and, once you become established, regular writing gigs. The editors like to keep a stable of dependable writers both to commission and ones who can find good stories to query about.As always, however, you need to know the market before trying to break into it. With magazine writing, that means reading, no, studying several issues before querying. How to get your hands on the trade rags? Here's good news: free subscriptions are available through at least two websites:
Free Trade Magazine SourceBoth offer search services and you can sign up for email alerts when new publications are added. TradePub even offers RSS feeds by category -- a truly handy feature for those who intend to specialize in this type of business writing.
TradePub
Labels: magazine, Resource, writing
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 9:22 AM
3 Comments:
Good advice! You are SO resourceful.
Great idea, Georganna. A Google search can also turn up a number of websites for trades in the chosen field.
Also, writers should know that writing for trades is just as creative, if not more so, than writing for consumer pubs. The idea that you're writing to a specific niche doesn't mean they don't want to be entertained when they read. :)
Thanks, ladies! Lori, would you like to expand on the idea of creativity in trade writing for a guest post?
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