planning

Are You Ready For Valentine’s Day?

It’s mid-August, so it’s clearly time to start thinking about hearts and candy, right? Don’t look at me like I’m crazy. I really am planning five months ahead, at least when it comes to pitching projects. I’m not doing this because I’m super-organized, either. Right now, magazine editors are planning their February and March issues. [...]

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Emergency Plan: What do you do without internet?

In the vein of yesterday’s post on creating an emergency plan, I’d like you to consider a few other emergencies that could affect your work. One of the worst case scenarios for freelance writers can be losing their internet connection. You may be all ready to work, but if you can’t complete your research, email [...]

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Your 2008 Calendar, Part 2: Budgeting Your Time

Yesterday, I posted about the mechanics of planning your writing calendar. I have more to say, however, so here’s part two. Is your goal for 2008 monetary? How much do you need to earn per month to meet your goal? Per week? Per day? I’d like to suggest that you put your goals on your [...]

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Planning your 2008 writing calendar

We all have fantastic writing goals: submitting a certain number of queries, hitting a certain word count each day, etc. These goals will make us better writers (and hopefully help us earn more), as long as we stick with them. I don’t want to sound pessimistic here — I’m only suggesting that we engage in [...]

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Create your own editorial calendar

Many magazines and other publications plan out their editorial calendars months or more in advance. It may not be anything fancy — a lot of editors don’t go much beyond assigning a theme to each issue and thinking up a few story ideas. Publishing houses do something similar — they know well in advance what [...]

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Planning ahead for the holidays

Halloween hasn’t actually passed yet, but a lot of the stores already have their Christmas offerings up. It isn’t all bad, though — if you start planning for the holidays now, it’ll be a breeze, and all that Happy Holidays stuff is already out and ready to be picked up. My holiday season doesn’t just [...]

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