CASH IN ON TABLOID REAL LIFE STORIES
My husband kept his under aged mistress prisoner in our coal cellar! Or Devil worshipping grandmother turns lesbian at 80! Pretty shocking hey? Well it is supposed to be! These stories attract huge payouts from tabloid magazines and newspapers so it is no wonder a lot of writers have turned their attention to this area of magazine writing.
Payment for these kinds of magazine articles far out strips anything else on offer, typically anywhere from a thousand pounds upwards and the additional prospect of a byline in a magazine with a circulation of many thousands is a further attraction.
How hard is it then to break into this type of magazine writing? If you have something like a husband with a mistress in the coal cellar, pretty easy! Once word gets out, you will probably find buyers coming to you, but there are plenty of agencies and brokers who will be more than pleased to help you sell your story for a percentage of the fee.
These are industry professionals with good contacts. For a percentage of the fee, they will negotiate the best price for the story on your behalf, a little like a book publishing agent, but there the similarity ends because unlike the world of book publishing, it is highly unlikely that you will be allowed to write your story!
This is not a problem if you are only interested in the cash and have no real writing aspirations, but if you are seriously interested in writing for magazines, you will want to do your own writing and build a portfolio of creditable clips.
Your attempts to hold to the truth will largely go unheeded and it is very likely that you will also have to agree to photographs of yourself being spread all over the centre pages.
Fortunatly, you do not have to dabble in these somewhat murky waters to make a reasonable living writing for magazines.
As long as your writing and research skills are of a reasonable level, there are plenty of magazines and websites offering good payment rates for articles.
Give yourself a good grounding in the basic skills of writing magazine articles and take on board the fact that writing is a business and you will soon begin to make sales.
There is a lot of help available so it makes sense to do some background reading on writing for magazinesbefore firing off articles to unsuitable targets.
Get started by joining a good creative writing community. These very often carry market listings which pay for magazine articlesand are also a pillar of support for the emerging writer. You should also sign up for Mags & Rags, a superb ecourse on writing for magazines.This is currently free and will give you a good grounding in all aspects of magazine writing.
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