I've been thinking a lot about the trajectory I want 2012 to take. Now that I actually have some free time thanks to my new job, I want to continue to explore interests and passions that historically have been placed on the backburner.
As we all know, I like to write. Maybe I'm good at it, maybe not, it's hard to tell when the words on the page are such personal products of your inner voice. Objectively characterizing one's own writing as "good" or "bad" is a task I have not yet mastered.
And so I figured maybe it was time to put it to the test. I'm going to start submitting queries to magazines. For those who aren't aware, a query is simply a letter to a lower-level editor, describing or pitching an article you'd like to write (or in my case, may have already written), and explaining how the article would both fit into the source's platform and how it would engage readers. Since most of my posts of late have dealt with fitness/eating healthy, that's going to be my initial focus. However, after I get the hang of this "query" business (and undoubtedly receive dozens of rejection letters), I hope to expand my freelance attempts into other topics, such as travel, beauty, and music.
Here's hoping a few editors find my writing as interesting as my Mom does.
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