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

It’s well worth the thirty dollar investment, and you can also register to receive the same information from the writersmarket.com Web site.

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

Combine the types of articles written with the predominant subjects they like to run and you’ll be well on your way to hitting a home run with your queries.

Below the corkboard of my Writer’s Taffy Machine is a second corkboard divided roughly in half. On the left side is my corral, the fourteen or fifteen magazines I write for regularly. On the other side is my Heart List, currently with fifteen magazines. I keep these two lists on my wall to help me stay awake to this game of turning Heart List magaz

Call to Action Assignment 1. Pick at least three of your hottest ideas, the ones you would really like to write about and that seem to have several likely markets. Write the basic idea on a sheet of paper or use the Article Development Form. 2. Develop these ideas thoroughly. See how many different slants or spins you can create with each idea.

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.

I heard myself thinking, This man’s message needs a much larger audience.

ARTICLE DEVELOPMENT FORM BASIC IDEA: _________________________________________ DATE: _________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ CAPSULE SENTENCE:______________

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?