Description
If you have what it takes to be a writer, but aren’t sure where to start, here is the guide to launching a successful freelance career.  Moira Allen, a veteran of the business, covers every aspect of freelance writing, from figuring out “where do I begin?” to selling your first article to negotiating publishing contracts.

Learn how to:

• Develop marketable story ideas and write effective queries
• Set realistic goals
• Make time for writing
• Perfect research and interview techniques
• Create outlines and first drafts
• Find appropriate markets for your work
• Properly format your manuscripts
• Know if and when to take the plunge into full-time freelancing
• Break into business writing
• Write and market a nonfiction book

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 158115304X
ISBN-13: 9781581153040
Format: Paperback, 256 pp
Publisher: Allworth Press
Pub. date: 2003

Book author
Moira Allen has been writing professionally for more than twenty years and has contributed more than two hundred articles and columns to such publications as Writer's Digest, The Writer, Byline, Entrepreneur, and Inklings.  She hosts the writing web site Writing-World.com.  Allen is a longtime instructor of freelance and creative writing and speaks at writers' conferences and wrokshops throughout the country.

Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: So You Want to Be a Freelance writer
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Making Time to Write
Chapter 4: Setting Goals
Chapter 5: Coping with Rejection
Part II: Starting Your Article
Chapter 6; Finding Ideas
Chapter 7: Categories, Subjects, Topics, and Slants
Chapter 8: The Outline Demystified
Chapter 9: Conducting Research on the Web
Chapter 10: Conducting Interviews
Chapter 11: Starting Your First Draft
Chapter 12: Personal-Experience Articles
Part III: Finding the Right Markets
Chapter 13: Exploring the Markets
Chapter 14: Writing for Special-Interest Publications
Chapter 15: Writing for Newspapers
Part IV: Queries and Submissions
Chapter 16: The Submission Process
Chapter 17: How to Write a Successful Query
Chapter 18: E-mail Queries
Chapter 19: Formatting Your Manuscript
Chapter 20: Do You Need a Cover Letter?
Part V: Rights and Contracts
Chapter 21: Understanding Rights and Copyright
Chapter 22: Understanding Contracts
Chapter 23: Setting Fees and Getting Paid
Chapter 24: Handling Income and Expenses
Chapter 25: Keeping Records
Part VI: Expanding Your Writing Business
Chapter 26: Selling Reprints
Chapter 27: Selling Photos
Chapter 28: Selling (and Syndicating) a Column
Chapter 29: Writing (and Selling) a Nonfiction Book
Chapter 30: Writing for Businesses
Chapter 31. Becoming A Full-time Freelancer
Appendix: Online Resources
Contributors
Index

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