Writing Articles about the World Around You

by Marcia Yudkin

Book Overview

Get Started Writing for Magazines - and Learn to Make a Living At ItThrough examples, explanations and tips, Writing Articles About the World Around You demonstrates how to generate original and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898798140
• ISBN13: 9780898798142
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The best book for BEGINNERS

I am a beginner freelance writer. I found this book the best among 8 other simple books about writing basics. This book starts with things, people & events close to you and how to make them as raw materials to headlines IDEAS. Also, it show you how to transform ideas to pragraghs.Then, it guides you in how to contact the editors and the keys to make them accept your articles by explaining how they think and what pressures that influence them.It is a great book to start with. If you are a beginner freelance writer, don't miss this book. It encourage you a lot.

The best book for BEGINNERS

I am a beginner freelance writer. I found this book the best among 8 other simple books about writing basics. This book starts with things, people & events close to you and how to make them as raw materials to headlines IDEAS. Also, it shows you how to transform ideas to pragraghs.Then, it guides you in how to contact the editors and the keys to make them accept your articles by explaining how they think and what pressures that influence them.It is a great book to start with. If you are a beginner freelance writer, don't miss this book. It encourage you a lot.

A book with endless suggestions of where to submit your work

This is a must have book for the beginning writer. Yudkin takes one idea for an article and twists and turns it into a half-dozen for you. Her suggestions generate idea after idea. Even if you're not a beginner, you'll find yourself refreshed and resurged to look for the unique way to sell your articles. I highly recommend Marcia Yudkin. She's a supreme marketeer.

Writing Articles about the World Around You

It was a great book. I have a journalism background and have been out of the writing business for awhile. I bought the book to refresh my memory and Marcia does agreat job of telling the reader how to come up with ideas, contacting the media you want to write for, contracts etc. For a writer that has been out of the circle indefinetly, it is a great referesher book. For a beginner it is even better!

shows you how to turn your ideas into cash

By looking around and using the stuff of your every day life, you've got fodder for dozens of articles -- and this book tells you how to turn them into query letters and articles that will have editors asking you back for more.