Pitching and Marketing

An award-winning journalist from India on what she learned from top foreign correspondents. Here’s a funny thing that I noticed during my time in India: When journalists came to India from abroad to work as foreign correspondents, they had a far easier time making it as freelancers than local journalists born and brought up in […]

A six-figure freelancer on the top strategies she’s used to find new clients and how you can easily replicate her process in an hour a day. It’s probably one of the most clichéd lines in the freelance writing world, but that doesn’t make it any less true: Freelancing is a numbers game. To find new […]

What to do when a story comes back rejected and your ideas don’t sell. A writer emailed me the other day to ask what I do when my ideas don’t sell, when I get rejection after rejection. Do I give up? How do I keep believing? When do I know a story is a dud? […]

The psychological tricks every writer needs. Writers, as a side effect of being creative folk, are masters of the art of the excuse. We create all kinds of psychological barriers for ourselves when it comes time to get work done. Time to pitch a story or an idea? Yeah, I’ll have a cup of tea […]

Was there a way I could get more responses, even rejections? I decided to experiment. Like most writers, I started my freelancing career fearing and hating pitching in equal parts. Then, I doubled my response rate. In the early days of my career, I sent out five query letters a day, 25 queries a week. […]