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Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: This idea grabs me by the "goohoolies" and gets my "goohoolies" all atwitter..... (MaaMaw)
Monday, 18 July 2005, at 7:53 a.m.
> (just don't tell me what my "goohoolies" are, okay?)
My lips are sealed.
> In between all that, I talked to a lady in our homeschool group who
> offered me pointers on freelance writing, but she said the money comes
> months after the fact.
Yes and no. The trick is to have a set of articles and send them out at the rate of 5 per week (doable, right?) You can also sell REPRINTS (it published once, but you sell it to a different type of magazine. Same article...) Yeah, it takes a few months -- but how many months have you already spent on other things? And what *else* are you doing with those valuable words?
Right.
> Is the "months after the fact" part not true?
Depends on the market. I've been paid as quickly as 2 weeks after acceptance, and as late as a year and a half after acceptance (Cricket magazine. Paid after publication.) Usually they pay after publication. That's the reason why you write and keep writing. Serious writers aren't writing to earn their money this month; they're writing to put food on the table 5 months from now.
You can also write on homeschooling. You can do a book of lesson plans, etc, etc. I assume you've already got a bunch of written lesson plans or notes for them hanging around, right?
You could turn some of them into "fun things to do with your kid during the summer for busy moms."
> Is there actually the potential to turn freelance writing into *real*
> money in time to save me?
This month? No. But you could start earning money for Thanksgiving and Christmas so that you didn't have to kill yourself working and could afford to turn down a job or two and still have money for presents and a nice family dinner.
I get Dan Case's newsletter: http://www.writingfordollars.com/ His newsletter lists live markets and you can browse back issues to see what you can write on. It's got some good tips for writers of all types. I picked up a $300 job writing a chapter for a history textbook through his newsletter.
His database is a bit dated but it's still okay for some stuff and you'll want to research any website it sends you to. :http://www.writingfordollars.com/Guidelines.cfm
Another thing to do is go to the library and borrow Writers' Digest's Guide To The Markets.
Preditors and Editors is another excellent resource: http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/
Nonfiction is actually an easier sale than fiction or poetry. Short nonfiction is easier to sell than short stories and novels and plays (she says, having experience in all of the above.) I'm not sure about op-ed because I'm a mild-mannered creature and don't do rants well.
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