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I've been a huge fan of Holly Becker's for a long time now, and love her Decor8 blog, her personality and style. So when I decided that it was time my life, art, business and blogs needed a huge reorganization and revamp, I leapt at the chance to enroll in her Blogging Your Way Boot Camp online course.
Of course it's a bit insane that I decide to take these courses on when I have so much on my hands at the moment, but that's really the point -- as it's time I took everything, especially my art and business, up to the next level. And to do so I have to first make sure that all my foundations are firm and in place, which means shaking things up a bit, and getting them to fall back into their intended spots so that I can steer myself in the right direction (with fingers tightly crossed). So I'm really looking forward to inspiration and great tips from the class. I shall let you know how things go ...
Cheers.
I love teaching my e-course Write for Magazines, and I’m excited to announce that the next session starts on Monday, January 10, 2011. Here’s what a former student has to say:
Since taking Linda’s course, my acceptance rate has gone way up. I have had editors send positive replies immediately in response to my queries. I write for quite a few custom publishers and have actually become so busy since taking Linda’s course that my calendar is full. One editor was so impressed with the first two queries (followed by articles that were on-time, error free and polished, as Linda also emphasizes in her course) that she asked me to send 12 article ideas for her to run throughout the year. I did and she accepted them all.
I can’t say enough about Linda’s course and her ability to tune into what editors really want. She really is the queen of online writing courses!
—Nita Crighton
My students are telling me that thanks to the course, they’ve landed assignments in such magazines and webzines as:
* Cottage Living
* For Me
* Black Health
* Woman’s Day
* E: The Environmental Magazine
* Writer’s Digest
* SELF
* Diabetes Forecast
* Blue Water Sailing
* Pizza Today
* Wines & Vines
* Spiritualty & Health
* New Jersey Family
* Weight Watchers Magazine
* Washington Parent
* Babyzone.com
* Graduating Engineer
* Rhode Island Home, Garden & Design
* Working Mother
I’d love for you to join the ranks of these and other students who are reaching their writing dreams. Because I spend so much time critiquing students’ assignments and answering their questions, I have to limit the number of students in the Premium version of the e-course (with e-mail support) to ten…so don’t wait to sign up!
You may be asking, “Who the heck is this chick to be teaching a course in breaking into magazines?” Well, I’ve written for more than 130 newsstand, custom, online, and trade magazines since 1997, including Health, Redbook, Inc., Writer’s Digest, USA Weekend, Woman’s Day, Family Circle, Alternative Medicine, WebMD, and Wired News. I’ve taught more than 350 students through my Write for Magazines e-course and my phone mentoring for writers in the last five years. Finally, as the co-author of The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock, I interviewed the editors of two dozen newsstand and trade magazines, from Smithsonian to Parenting, on what makes queries work.
You can get more information on Write for Magazines here.
I hope I get to work with you! [lf]
This is a guest post by Jennifer Lawler. Jennifer is the author of more than 30 books, inlcuding Dojo Wisdom for Writers, and has written for magazines ranging from Family Circle to Cooking Light. She teaches a copyediting class at the University of California, San Diego and was formerly a freelance editor for ATA World magazine. We’re excited that Jennifer is teaching the e-course Freelance Editing 101 for The Renegade Writer. Her next session starts on July 12—that’s this coming Monday, so sign up now!
Multiple streams of income. You’ve probably heard that as a freelancer you should have them—but how? And why?
Simply put, having multiple streams of income means you earn money from various sources. A staff reporter has one source of income, her employer; a freelance writer may have ten or more, depending on how many clients she’s juggling at any given time.
Beyond that, though, and what I think is most important for freelancers, is the concept of having a variety of types of income. This makes intuitive sense to most people. If you have one spigot, and it gets turned off, you’re going to go thirsty. If you have ten, and one gets turned off, well, you still have nine to draw water from.
That’s the key to surviving the often-turbulent waters of freelancing. For many years, writers who wrote exclusively for consumer magazines did very well for themselves—and then the economy tanked, and print media was devastated, and those writers were left scrambling to regroup when assignments stopped coming. Going from 80 to 0 in a couple of months is like slamming into a brick wall. It takes a while to shake it off. Writers who weren’t so heavily invested in writing for consumer magazines had an easier time of navigating the new waters.
The problem—which I’m sure you can immediately see—is that you can get too scattered chasing all kinds of opportunities and end up with nothing much to show for your efforts. Everyone has a limited amount of resources (time, attention, energy, knowledge). If I’m trying to break into magazine writing, should I also be trying to break into book publishing and corporate writing at the same time?
Probably not. Although I now have many sources of income—book advances, book royalties, magazine writing, teaching, editing, coaching—I certainly didn’t start that way. I didn’t pursue all of the possibilities at the same time.
I started with books, mostly because I’d always wanted to write them. I focused on martial arts related topics (a subject matter I knew pretty well). Then I started to write for magazines: first, I wrote for magazines that published martial arts content, then I wrote articles with a martial arts slant for general consumer magazines. Then an opportunity arose for me to edit a martial arts magazine, so I branched into that. In the meantime, because I had become familiar with book publishing, and I had some editing skills and deep intimacy with the Chicago Manual of Style (from grad school days), I started doing copyediting and developmental editing for book publishers. Then came chances to teach writing and editing skills at various universities (as well as online courses I develop myself).
What’s effective about this approach is that I got pretty good at one skill (say, writing books). Then I branched out and got pretty good at another skill (say, writing magazine articles). Then I spent time mastering yet another skill (editing magazines). Each time, I was getting paid for mastering the skill,
I love teaching my e-course Write for Magazines, and I’m excited to announce that the next session starts on Monday, July 19, 2010. I was also excited to receive this testimonial from a former student:
Since taking Linda’s course, my acceptance rate has gone way up. I have had editors send positive replies immediately in response to my queries. I write for quite a few custom publishers and have actually become so busy since taking Linda’s course that my calendar is full. One editor was so impressed with the first two queries (followed by articles that were on-time, error free and polished, as Linda also emphasizes in her course) that she asked me to send 12 article ideas for her to run throughout the year. I did and she accepted them all.
I can’t say enough about Linda’s course and her ability to tune into what editors really want. She really is the queen of online writing courses!
—Nita Crighton
My students are telling me that thanks to the course, they’ve landed assignments in such magazines and webzines as:
* Cottage Living
* For Me
* Black Health
* Woman’s Day
* E: The Environmental Magazine
* Writer’s Digest
* SELF
* Diabetes Forecast
* Blue Water Sailing
* Pizza Today
* Wines & Vines
* Spiritualty & Health
* New Jersey Family
* Weight Watchers Magazine
* Washington Parent
* Babyzone.com
* Graduating Engineer
* Rhode Island Home, Garden & Design
I’d love for you to join the ranks of these and other students who are reaching their writing dreams. Because I spend so much time critiquing students’ assignments and answering their questions, I have to limit the number of students in the Premium version of the e-course (with e-mail support) to ten…so don’t wait to sign up!
You may be asking, “Who the heck is this chick to be teaching a course in breaking into magazines?” Well, I’ve written for more than 120 newsstand, custom, online, and trade magazines since 1997, including Health, Redbook, Inc., Writer’s Digest, USA Weekend, Woman’s Day, Family Circle, Alternative Medicine, WebMD, and Wired News. I’ve taught more than 350 students through my Write for Magazines e-course and my phone mentoring for writers in the last five years. Finally, as the co-author of The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock, I interviewed the editors of two dozen newsstand and trade magazines, from Smithsonian to Parenting, on what makes queries work.
You can get more information on Write for Magazines here. And if you’re more interested in getting a boost in motivation, organization, and productivity, you may enjoy my e-course Get Unstuck! for Freelancers.
I hope I get to work with you! [lf]
The winners have been selected in the first-ever drawing for free spots in my e-course on writing for trade magazines. A total of 63 people entered the drawing; I am so psyched about all the interest in the class.
First, I wanted to explain how I did the drawing. Originally, I was going to go old school, write down everyone’s names on slips of paper and draw names out of a hat. But since Tuesday was my husband’s birthday, I really didn’t want to spend the evening cutting up pieces of paper. So, I went to him and asked him to give me two numbers between 1 and 63. He picked 49 (that’s how old he is now) and 18. Then I asked him if I should count from the top of the list down, or from the bottom of the list up (I had them in a folder in Outlook, arranged chronologically). He picked top down. My only involvement in the process was counting from 1 to 49. Trust me, he felt the pressure knowing that it was all on him!
The winners are:
First place, winning a premium version of my e-course - Debbie Koenig
Second place, winning a basic version of my e-course - Angie.
Congratulations to them both!!
For everyone else, registration for the September class is open now, right here at www.TheRenegadeWriter.com. As always, I offer a money-back guarantee. If you get through the first two weeks of the course and it’s just not what you thought it would be, you’ll get a full refund of your registration.
Thanks to much to everyone who entered the drawing!
Pat Curry
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