As a freelance writer, ideas are your bread and butter: keep having them. Have you got any interests, hobbies or obsessions? Has anything unusual happened to your friends or members of your family? These are all good starting points for writing articles. Look for work in new magazines that don’t have established links with freelancers. They are more likely to give new writers a chance.
Article by Sharon Hurley Hall
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Twitter: LTGMonkey
October 21, 2011 at 19:55
Hi Sharon,
I was hoping for a few more tips on where/how to actually get ideas. I guess if we get some comments going on this tip your readers might come up with some
. I read a great book by Andrew Crofts called ‘The Freelance Writer’ and I got a lot of ideas from that. Though I was already writing, Andrew romanticises about being a freelance writer very well and describes just how many different things as opposed to the obvious writing a book that a freelance writer could do.
He specialises in ghost writing and in doing so gets to explore and experience some wonderful things whilst at the same time being provided with the story for each project!
Anyways, I love the idea of short, sharp tips & I love your blog and will spend some more time here soon,
take care & best wishes,
Alan
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