Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Sell your writing services: it's easy

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

Selling your writing services couldn't be easier, IF you know how it's done.

Lucky Fab Freelance Writing Ezine subscribers know that already, because they've taken advantage of the subscribers-only offer for my new "sell your writing services" product (being a member has its advantages. :-))

I'll be expanding on the topic with next week's issue of the ezine, in which our theme is: "Instant Money: Sell Your Writing Services".

Here's the thing to be aware of: most writing jobs are never advertised, for any number of reasons, the chief one being that businesses and publications are just TOO BUSY.

If you're a successful freelancer, you already know this. When a series of articles, an advertorial, a brochure, or a booklet is needed, it's needed NOW.

Advertising for writers, and then reading through tons of (generally hopeless) applications is time-intensive. In today's economic climate, no one has the time to go through the rigmarole.

So what do these time-pressed buyers of writing services do?

They:

* Use the outsourcing sites. At least they get bids, and some of those bids are highly professional;

* They contact their network and plead to be given the contact details of good writers;

* They repurpose material they already have;

* They forget about the project.

Can you see that if these busy buyers had the name of just ONE writer in their contacts database, that writer would get several writing gigs over the course of a year?

Therefore, getting your name out to potential buyers, and getting onto their databases, is essential.

So how do you do this?

Here's the easiest way: introduce yourself.

Yes, it's as easy as that.

You can send introductory letters and email messages to:

* Magazines and online publications (include your clips, if you have them)

* Businesses (locally and around the globe)

* Clubs, organizations and associations

* Advertising and editorial agencies

Please don't over-think this. It's both SIMPLE and EASY. Get your name and contact details onto databases.

You've still got time to make 2009 your best writing year ever -- hop to it. :-)

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