From Spark to Flame: Fanning Your Passion & Ideas into Moneymaking Magazine Articles that Make a Difference (Monetizing Your Purpose & Passion Series Book 1)

Next look at the types of articles the magazine publishes. Using the outline form, count the number of different types of articles in the three back issues so you’ll know the types to suggest to the editors. Do they use how-to articles, profiles, Q & A interviews, essays, personal experience pieces, or travel articles?

I’ve found as I go through the research phase of the writing process, there comes a point where I start hearing myself say, “How am I going to get all this great material into this one article?” And that’s a sure sign that I’m ready to write the rough draft.

I’ve found that most freelance writers who specialize in writing for magazines spend in the neighborhood of forty to sixty percent of their time in some form of marketing, whether it’s studying magazines, writing new idea proposals, or networking.

one time North American rights, which mean you’re giving the magazine permission to publish the article one time in their North American publication, they may be expecting all rights in all different forms.

Second, look closely at the advertisements where you’ll find a visual image of the magazine’s reader. Since magazines operate from the advertising revenues they receive, advertisers invest a lot of money to target their ads to their audience. Also, reading the ads can often give you a look inside the psyches of the readers, since they’re written to

Let’s say you want to write interviews and profiles, and you’ve found a magazine that takes these kinds of articles. Scan through the contents to see which ones you’re naturally attracted to. Then sit back and start reading, but not in the same way you’ve read them before. Now, you must be more than a reader; you must also be a writer.

As Lisa Collier Cool writes in her book How to Sell Every Magazine Article You Write, the slant or angle of an idea is “what makes a submission right for one magazine, wrong for another.” Having a well thought-out and defined slant will not only make your idea more appealing to the editor, it will also make the article easier to write.

John Perkins, who had written a book entitled Shape Shifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation.

Another area to focus on are the departments of the magazine. You can determine which articles are departments by looking at the table of contents. Typically, the department name will be listed, with the article title underneath. Department names remain the same month after month. This is often where a new freelance writer can break into a magazine