Cotty wrote: > > > And so he's been doing this for quite a while. His advice to me? Know > your market. Write about something you know, but most importantly, write > it in the style the editor you are submitting to will want. Make it easy > for them, and they'll snap it up.
Write what you know. Very good advice. After working as a race car mechanic and engine builder in my late teens and early twenties, I turned to writing for automotive magazines in order to stay in touch with something I loved. I probably wrote several hundred magazine articles in a period from 1974 to 1991. Early on, I found that I could make more money if I did the photography as well, so I borrowed a TLR Mamiya from my brother and set about learning to use it. My writing eventually lead to a career in advertising and some conflicts of interest that kept me away from the journalism side of things. But those conflicts have cleared up a bit since I'm working on different advertising accounts than I once did, so I'm taking it up again. This time it's more to help pay for my hobby, while providing some subject matter for my camera. Paul Cotty > > _______________________________________________________ > Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Check out the UK Macintosh ads > http://www.macads.co.uk > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
