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| Chapter 1 | The Freelance Facts of Life | 11 |
| What is a magazine? | ||
| How much can you make? | ||
| Don't give up your day job | ||
| The writer's ego, and how it helps and hurts | ||
| The bad news | ||
| The good news: what you don't see may be bigger than what you see | ||
| Chapter 2 | How to Read a Magazine and Know What Editors Really Want | 21 |
| Check out the masthead | ||
| What kinds of articles does your target magazine publish? | ||
| Analyze style and technique | ||
| Study the advertising | ||
| Chapter 3 | The Query System and How to Make It Work for You | 28 |
| How to write a query | ||
| The terrible ten-second sort | ||
| Nine characteristics of good queries | ||
| Nine beginner's mistakes you must avoid | ||
| Why many editors steer clear of beginners | ||
| Exceptions to the rule | ||
| Why good queries are rejected | ||
| Chapter 4 | Ideas and How to Get Them | 40 |
| A good idea is worth its weight in gold | ||
| We just don't believe it | ||
| We are our own worst critics | ||
| The idea vanishes before we capture it | ||
| The importance of specialization | ||
| Mind-mapping | ||
| Basic human needs and desires | ||
| Read, clip and file | ||
| Chapter 5 | The Professional Writer's Toolkit | 52 |
| How did he do that? | ||
| A personal example | ||
| The six most common flaws and how to remedy them | ||
| Poor structure: the anatomy of a magazine article | ||
| Inappropriate tone | ||
| Omission of the telling detail | ||
| Awkward handling of quotes | ||
| Transition trouble | ||
| Lack of anecdote and illustration: the freelancers' paradigm | ||
| The paradigm is a pattern | ||
| The paradigm is basic | ||
| Everybody uses the paradigm, even highbrows | ||
| The greatest teachers | ||
| Chapter 6 | Eight Success Secrets of the Masters | 71 |
| The masters specialize | ||
| The masters recycle | ||
| The masters write every day | ||
| The masters revise what they write | ||
| The masters observe the Rule of One | ||
| The masters observe the Rule of Twenty-Four | ||
| The masters observe the Rule of Seven | ||
| The masters overcome writer's block | ||
| Chapter 7 | How to Write for Newspapers and Syndicate Your Own Column | 77 |
| Chaos is real and time is short | ||
| The big dailies | ||
| Niche-market tabloids | ||
| To pitch an idea | ||
| The real opportunity: syndicate your own column | ||
| Profile of a column | ||
| What a column does | ||
| Profile of a columnist | ||
| How much do you earn? | ||
| Marketing your column | ||
| Create a sales package | ||
| Assemble your package | ||
| Plan your marketing campaign | ||
| Market in concentric circles | ||
| An example | ||
| Sending out the package | ||
| Secondary profit centers | ||
| Chapter 8 | Need an Agent? Here's How to Get One | 94 |
| What an agent is | ||
| An agent is born | ||
| What the agent is selling | ||
| What agents are looking for (do you fill the bill) | ||
| Three questions agents may ask you | ||
| The reading fee | ||
| Getting the ball rolling: how to make contact with an agent | ||
| Querying an agent | ||
| A sample letter | ||
| Get an agent by publishing your own book | ||
| Not just an agent, but a good agent | ||
| Questions you want to ask | ||
| Legitimate agent charges | ||
| Chapter 9 | Will They Steal My Idea? and Other Scary Questions | 111 |
| My own experience | ||
| Ideas and words | ||
| Ideas and editors | ||
| Slant and style | ||
| When it looks like theft, but isn't | ||
| What about copyright? | ||
| What copyright does not cover | ||
| Trademarks and fair trade practices | ||
| A work made for hire | ||
| New dangers: the electronic frontier | ||
| A minor case of e-grabbing | ||
| Life after life | ||
| Plagiarism | ||
| The POD Blues | ||
| Why a union? | ||
| Chapter 10 | How to Sell Information on the Internet | 127 |
| The World Wide Web: a chaos of opportunities for writers | ||
| The web is in a constant state of change | ||
| Information sells: a story from pre-Internet days | ||
| The light dawns | ||
| What kind of information can you sell? | ||
| Trolling for information | ||
| Ideas from newspapers and magazines | ||
| Building your website | ||
| What you say on your site | ||
| Getting the money | ||
| If you build it, will they come? | ||
| The secret: attract traffic with classified ads | ||
| Write articles promoting your products | ||
| Other web sales opportunities | ||
| Chapter 11 | Business Details: Rights and Contracts | 145 |
| The rights you are selling | ||
| Check out this source of information: NWU | ||
| ASJA on electronic rights | ||
| Your compensation | ||
| By the word or by the piece | ||
| "On spec" assignments | ||
| The kill fee | ||
| Be careful what warranties you give | ||
| Copyright your work | ||
| Chapter 12 | Writing for Businesses | 153 |
| Capabilities brochures | ||
| Annual reports | ||
| Operations manuals | ||
| Business plans | ||
| Work with accountants | ||
| Employee manuals | ||
| Seminars | ||
| Editing and ghost writing | ||
| Chapter 13 | How to Build Your Reputation as a Writer | 161 |
| Prepare a media kit | ||
| Small but powerful publications | ||
| Bombard the world with news releases | ||
| A release for every occasion | ||
| How to get on television | ||
| The payoff | ||
| Appendix 1 | Contacts and Sources | 170 |
| Appendix 2 | Glossary | 176 |
| Index | 182 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Andrew Krejsa
reviewed Get Paid to Write! (Culture Tools Series): The No-Nonsense Guide to Freelance Writing on May 25, 2018
Get Paid to Write! (Culture Tools Series): The No-Nonsense Guide to Freelance Writing
It's an okay book. Has some good information for publishing.
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