There’s so much good stuff out there! I’m so happy to share with you what I find. Happy reading!
10 Lessons from a Year of Magazine Writing, by Ed Cyzewski
A year ago I started sending magazine queries to editors on a regular basis. Just the other day I looked over some old queries from last August and September. Man, they were awful.
I should have just followed up my query with a plea to not even read them.
You could say I’ve learned something over the past year, especially since my number of accepted and published articles has significantly increased over the past three months. Here are some lessons that may help you as you query magazine editors…
Improving Your Academic Writing: My Top 10 Tips, by Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega
You’ll see: I write differently if I am submitting a paper to Policy Sciences (a public policy journal) than if I am sending it to Water International (an area journal focusing on water). I write differently for a human geography audience than I do for a political science one. That was the very first piece of advice my PhD advisor gave me on writing: write for your audience. And that is, I think, an element that was missing in Walt’s piece: we write for specific audiences. I write differently a policy advice report than I do a public policy scholarly paper. The audiences are different, as are the goals of each piece of writing.
Lately I’ve been so enthralled with George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series that I haven’t been reading as many articles online. This series is so fantastic. I think I’ll have to write a review sometime soon…
