Comments on: Want More Article Assignments? Tips for Working With Editors http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/want-more-article-assignments-tips-for-working-with-magazine-editors/ Tips for writers, freelancers, and novelists paired with quips from successful authors, to help you write better! Tue, 15 May 2012 00:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: How to Make the Editor Your Friend, Revisited: Discussing the story assignment « Write Livelihood http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/want-more-article-assignments-tips-for-working-with-magazine-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-5470 How to Make the Editor Your Friend, Revisited: Discussing the story assignment « Write Livelihood Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:14:32 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=154#comment-5470 [...] Want More Article Assignments? Tips for Working With Magazine Editors Tips from Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen’s Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen’s Quips and Tips for Successful Writers blog. [...] [...] Want More Article Assignments? Tips for Working With Magazine Editors Tips from Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen’s Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen’s Quips and Tips for Successful Writers blog. [...]

]]> By: Laurie PK http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/want-more-article-assignments-tips-for-working-with-magazine-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-778 Laurie PK Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:08:13 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=154#comment-778 Oops, I think there's a typo in this quip: "Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.” - Elbert Hubbard The editor should see that the chaff is NOT printed! The wheat is the good stuff...the chaff is the stuff you don't want. <abbr><em>Laurie PK’s last blog post..10 Tips for Eating Healthy While Working From Home</abbr></em> Oops, I think there’s a typo in this quip:

“Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.” – Elbert Hubbard

The editor should see that the chaff is NOT printed! The wheat is the good stuff…the chaff is the stuff you don’t want.

Laurie PK’s last blog post..10 Tips for Eating Healthy While Working From Home

]]> By: Tumblemoose http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/want-more-article-assignments-tips-for-working-with-magazine-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-707 Tumblemoose Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:50:36 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=154#comment-707 Hey Laurie, I'm loling at the quips. Perfect! Some good suggestions here. I hadn't thought of asking for more work when submitting an invoice. It makes perfect sense. They already know me and my work, and I'm fresh in their mind's eye. George Hey Laurie,

I’m loling at the quips. Perfect!

Some good suggestions here. I hadn’t thought of asking for more work when submitting an invoice. It makes perfect sense. They already know me and my work, and I’m fresh in their mind’s eye.

George

]]> By: Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/want-more-article-assignments-tips-for-working-with-magazine-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-706 Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:19:44 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=154#comment-706 Good point, Margie -- and that exact thing happened to me! I sold a short article to Reader's Digest, and couldn't find enough sources to write the damn thing. I ended up having to back out of the assignment.....ouch! So, lining up your sources and experts is a great idea. Or at least, have a good idea of where your people will come from! Good point, Margie — and that exact thing happened to me! I sold a short article to Reader’s Digest, and couldn’t find enough sources to write the damn thing. I ended up having to back out of the assignment…..ouch!

So, lining up your sources and experts is a great idea. Or at least, have a good idea of where your people will come from!

]]> By: margiewrites http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/want-more-article-assignments-tips-for-working-with-magazine-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-705 margiewrites Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:35:01 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=154#comment-705 These are great tips. I have found #3 to be especially true. It makes the pitch more difficult to put together in getting sources already lined up, but makes it all that much stronger. By the time you get to writing your article, a lot of the leg work has already been done and that saves you time for writing the best story possible. Plus, I don't want to end up in a situation in which I have successfully sold a great or unique story idea, but couldn't find any sources to go with it! These are great tips. I have found #3 to be especially true. It makes the pitch more difficult to put together in getting sources already lined up, but makes it all that much stronger.

By the time you get to writing your article, a lot of the leg work has already been done and that saves you time for writing the best story possible. Plus, I don’t want to end up in a situation in which I have successfully sold a great or unique story idea, but couldn’t find any sources to go with it!

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