December ’08: Send editor a timely story idea based on recession. April ’09:M, I love your idea! So timely! Let me talk to my boss and we’ll get this in motion. June ’09:Here’s your contract, M. Deadline’s end of July. Can’t wait to read it! August ’09:We’ve slated this for our November issue. Just have […]

Listing my accomplishments is possibly the hardest thing for me to do each year, especially publicly. I get over the feeling that people will think I’m full of myself in order to keep a yearly record of what I’ve achieved (and haven’t). I started out in freelancing just as most people reading this blog have […]

I don’t do this exercise every year, but maybe I should? The idea is to list down all the failures of the year and see what was learned from them, and then note down all the successes of the year and celebrate those. And okay, I’m calling them failures, but they’re really just minor setbacks […]

When you suggest going out to “meet editors,” exactly how does one go about that? Should it be an editor I’ve already worked with once? Do I invite them out for coffee to present some ideas I have? I absolutely stink at selling myself in person, so I guess what I’m asking is, can you […]