What about submitting multiple query letters to magazines? I’ve been avoiding this on Quips and Tips for Successful Writers for months…and it’s time to ‘fess up!
Before the tips, a quip on writing:
“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.” – Robert A. Heinlein. 
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I’ve been using an Excel spreadsheet to track my magazine article pitches and submissions for over two years. Here’s how and why it works like a charm – and a question for my fellow scribes!
“Work with yourself, not against yourself,” says Julie Hood of TheOrganizedWriter.com. “Understand your personality and what works for you.  Do what [...]

To earn a living as a freelance writer, you need to keep winning article assignments! These tips for working with magazine editors will help ensure you’re always working on either a feature article, a research short, or even just a sidebar. Either way, you’ll be making money writing.
Before the tips, a quip:
“Almost anyone can be an author; the [...]

These ten tips for recognizing great article ideas will help you focus your pitches and land more assignments, fellow scribes! Especially if you’re into magazine writing…
Before the tips, here’s a quip from this fantastic book about magazine writing:
“Editors frequently complain that freelance writers don’t study their publications before they submit unsolicited ideas and manuscripts,” write [...]

It’s rare for writers to get an inside peek into the editor-in-chief’s job, so when I received this email from Terry-Lynn Stone, the big kahuna at British Columbia-based alive magazine, I jumped on the chance to share her writing tips with my fellow scribes! These tips are based on a writer who sent an email to the wrong person.
Before we [...]

While there’s no “winning formula” to writing excellent query letters, it is good to see how published freelance writers pitch their ideas! So, here’s a query letter I sent to MSN Health, which the editors accepted a couple days later.
“The most effective query letters get into the specifics from the very first line,” write the experts [...]

Are you an aspiring freelance writer? These tips for pitching your article ideas to magazines include a brief sample query letter. 
Before the tips, a quip: 
“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.” [...]

Here’s the query letter that landed me my first article to Reader’s Digest – it’s a sample of a successful query letter that you can use to win your own writing assignments! Even though I broke a couple of “writing rules”, I sold the article and still write for Reader’s Digest regularly.
But first, a quip:
“I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent [...]