Re: Writing technical articles

["Mike McCallister" <workingwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Amanda,

Funny, but this very subject came up on an STC list just yesterday.
The short answer is: nearly every magazine accepts freelance material
to one degree or another.

In addition to Writer's Market, I strongly recommend spending time at
the websites of your target magazine(s). Increasingly these places
post their writer's guidelines (with style and submission pointers,
and occasionally pay ranges) and editorial calendars (the topics they
are planning to cover in the coming weeks/months) online. Look in the
"About Us" or "Contact Us" areas if you don't see a "Write for Us"
link.

Then yes, study the content. Online, in the library, at home --
wherever. Develop ideas that cover the same area as the articles you
see, with a different angle or something close. Ideally, survey
several issues to see what they're interested in. Maybe you subscribe
to some of these things already. If not, as the CEO of your small
technical-writing business, you can get quite a few of them free (See
http://www.tradepubs.com/ for examples).

I'm told John Hedtke does workshops on this subject. As a tech
freelancer before I even got into this line of work, I'm happy to help
with specific questions too.

Sincerely,

Mike McCallister

On 3/10/06, Amanda Abelove <bluestreaker1977 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi all--
>
> Can anyone point me to a resource that would tell me what CIO / Technology /
> Business magazines accept articles and what they are interested in?  I tried
> googling, but this isn't general interest so I didn't turn up anything.
>
> Amanda
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