1. Test your idea:
In order to lead to sales, your query must persuade the editor that you have a clear idea that you intend to cover in the article,
So before writing a letter, think carefully about the idea of your article and draw yourself to describe the article to a friend.
2. Find the angle:
I often talk about shrinking angles. Topics like "sports", "table tennis" is excellent, it is too general to say narrow. Often, reducing the story to a single dimension, for example, focusing on important people, places, or events, gives a salable angle.
Sometimes it has to be a popular new approach to editors. One way is to take an idea like "overcome failure" and "failure can be good for you." It does not have to be exotic to sell "new and improved" Something worldly as worked by adding new ingredients normally.
3. Research Assistance:
While many questions can be written from the editor of the wait for their knowledge, a little research pays a great deal of dividends. The facts sell editors of ideas. Editors often inquire: "Can't write as well as not understand" "That's hurting millions of people last year and prone to yeast infection." why!
Research both the market and the topic to which you are pointing it. A common reason for refusal is the lack of knowledge of the journal.
4. Formation of your raw material:
After you have the basics:
a idea
b Tilt / fact, and
c market
Next, you are ready to write the query. A good query starts strong and never permits until an editor is sold. The "inverted pyramid" that emphasizes putting the most interesting information first (Who, What, When, Where, Why) and the most interesting information to explain the story quickly. If you save the best for the last, you lose the editor's interest and you will always remember the editor's cut from the bottom up!
5. Three major sections to the query:
a Lead paragraph
b Overview
c Author's bio.
Each has a specific purpose: first, what the story is, and why she / he should buy it, and finally who is going to write it
Lead-aims to hook the editor and make them want to keep reading.
If you call the editor's attention, move directly to the article summary.
Summary-This section should convince the editor that you know where you want to go with the articles; it is also about you on your topic. Teach the editors who will talk to you, and experts, if they are at the cutting edge of today's technology. Also include a working title for the article here. Do not use the title for a long time trying to get a provocative headline as the title often changes with the previous editor of the publication.
You are selling yourself as a writer to an editor because he has sold him or her with the idea of a Bio author. Don't be bashful; editors expect a little bit of sell on bio. It is not wrong to say anything if the reason for persuasive continues, "I am highly qualified to write this article ...". Start your bio with your publishing credit and preferably include a magazine similar to what you are pitching.
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