Kate Walter was attending her high school reunion a few years ago when a former classmate produced an old copy of the student newspaper with an editorial Walter had written. The ideas in the piece werent sophisticated—I was only 16 or 17 and thinking like a teenager when I wrote it, says Walter, a lecturer in developmental skills at BMCC as well as a highly regarded freelance writer. But it was interesting to recognize my writers voice—it was already there. Personal and profound Walter has spent a lifetime honing and refining that voice. In the…

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The first method is to write for free. This is a great way of getting started and is a method I’ve used many times in the past. It might even lead to a job with that publication.

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Freelance magazine writing can be one of the most rewarding careers available to a freelance writer. Successful magazine writers are articulate, have a wide variety of interests, and know how to research a topic. Many freelance magazine writers write for various magazines, not just one, and like to write on diverse topics and sell their articles to a variety of magazines and media outlets.

The key to writing for magazines and selling what you write is knowing your market. Most magazines focus on a fairly narrow range of content. One magazine might deal with the finer points of…

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Citation Details
Title: The Well-fed Writer: Financial Self-sufficiency as a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less.
Author: Marguerite Krupp
Publication: Technical Communication (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: Society for Technical Communication
Volume: 48…

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