ask, “If I could write for any magazines, which ones would they be?”

Let’s say you want to write interviews and profiles, and you’ve found a magazine that takes these kinds of articles. Scan through the contents to see which ones you’re naturally attracted to. Then sit back and start reading, but not in the same way you’ve read them before. Now, you must be more than a reader; you must also be a writer.

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What do you want to have in your world after the Passion Police leave? It must be written down or, after they’ve left, it won’t exist in your world.

It may be necessary to make some trips to the library and a large magazine newsstand for market research. That’s right, now that you’ve become a writer, an afternoon browsing through the magazine racks has suddenly been transformed into a business afternoon of market research. Nifty, huh?

I’ve found that most freelance writers who specialize in writing for magazines spend in the neighborhood of forty to sixty percent of their time in some form of marketing, whether it’s studying magazines, writing new idea proposals, or networking.

Writing magazine articles about passion-filled topics is half the equation. The other half is finding markets with a deep hunger for what you’re offering.

"Words do not label things already there. Words are like the knife of the carver: They free the idea, the thing, from the general formlessness of the outside. As a man speaks, not only is his language in a state of birth, but also the very thing about which he is talking." From an Old Eskimo saying

the Big R Game. The rules are simple; in fact, there’s only one, and it’s summarized in the object of the game: Collect as many rejections as you can as fast as you can while writing as well as you can.