This sample query letter includes several ways to improve it. It’s a pitch I sent to Child magazine two years ago; the editor didn’t assign the article, and here I explain why. These tips can be directly applied to your own query letters, to help you sell your freelance articles…
Before the tips, here’s a quip from two experienced freelance [...]

Do you dream of earning money writing for magazines – making money as a freelance writer? These seven signs that writing is the career for you are based on characteristics of successful freelancers. If you say “yes” to most of these signs of successful writers, then perhaps you can make mony writing!
First, here’s a tip about [...]

Here are ten solid tips for becoming a better freelance writer. You don’t need a four leaf clover to be lucky in writing – because you can create your own luck!
First, here’s a quip from Thomas Jefferson: 
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” 
To improve your [...]

Canadian author Margaret Atwood shares her writing quips and tips, advice and thoughts in Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Here, she describes the process of writing, becoming a writer, selling stories, and more.
First, of course, a writing quip from this famous published author:
“All writers must go from now to once a upon a [...]

Overcoming your fear of writing is key to becoming a successful writer, my friend! Here are eight ways to overcome writing fears, which will increase your writing productivity and improve your chances of getting published.
Before the tips, a quip:
“When I’m scared – and I’m always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have [...]

If you’re trying to get published, you’re coping with writing rejections all the time. These tips for dealing with setbacks as a writer will help you bounce back and query again. As a full-time freelance writer and blogger, I apply these tips almost every single day!
First, a writing quip from two successful writers and published authors:
“We think writers should stop placing so [...]

If you want to get your book published, remember that all successful published authors started out in the same place: a hopeful, aspiring, unpublished writer! This writing advice includes tips for rejection, perseverance, and timing — and great reasons why writers needn’t feel rejected if a book publisher doesn’t publish a manuscript or a magazine editor doesn’t assign [...]

To stop feeling like a writing failure because of rejection after rejection, check out JK Rowling’s Commencement Speech at Harvard. It’s about failing in life, and succeeding as a writer. Rowling calls this part of her speech “The Fringe Benefits of Failure.”
“An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as [...]