Comments on: More Bang-bang in Your Shoot-em-up https://wordsonpageblog.com/2011/10/more-bang-bang-in-your-shoot-em-up.html a freelance writing resource. Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:32:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Devon Ellington https://wordsonpageblog.com/2011/10/more-bang-bang-in-your-shoot-em-up.html#comment-9540 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:32:30 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2011/10/more-bang-bang-in-your-shoot-em-up.html/#comment-9540 Well, we've got four retrogrades going on — Pluto (what's hidden is revealed); Neptune (my ruling planet, so I'm always out of whack when that's retrograde, and it's creativity); Uranus, the great awakener (it's retrograde, so we can feel rumbles in the sleep), and Jupiter, the planet of physical expansion — this is the time when money can get tight, contracts are cancelled, things go wrong in the house, but also a time for looking within.

]]> By: Lori https://wordsonpageblog.com/2011/10/more-bang-bang-in-your-shoot-em-up.html#comment-9538 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:29:01 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2011/10/more-bang-bang-in-your-shoot-em-up.html/#comment-9538 Paula, that's one I commit, too. And it's funny – that was the majority of my work last year. I didn't ask, but they came in. A sign I should be asking.

Devon, I've been feeling the same and wondering if there's an astrological reason for it. (Always willing to blame stars over my own actions!). You've been deep in the teaching side for a while now too – maybe you need a side project to refresh, eh?

]]> By: Devon Ellington https://wordsonpageblog.com/2011/10/more-bang-bang-in-your-shoot-em-up.html#comment-9537 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:31:53 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2011/10/more-bang-bang-in-your-shoot-em-up.html/#comment-9537 I feel like I'm hitting another plateau, so in early November I'm going to do a re-assessment and see what I want to change.

A new marketing push will be part of that.

I'm spending too much time teaching, and it's not the most financially viable best usage of my time. So I need to get a few other things going again.

]]> By: Paula https://wordsonpageblog.com/2011/10/more-bang-bang-in-your-shoot-em-up.html#comment-9536 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:24:11 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2011/10/more-bang-bang-in-your-shoot-em-up.html/#comment-9536 My biggest marketing sin would probably be not asking for referrals. Granted, the bulk of my work is for magazines, and editors don't often refer their best writers to the competition. (That said, Favorite Editor once suggested sending one of my pitches she couldn't use to a friend of hers who had a start-up magazine. He bought it.)

I do get a different type of referrals from publicists. When I contact them seeking ideas for specific issues of certain magazines, I usually ask them to pass it along to their cohorts. Some are in huge network or corporate PR departments, others are one of several publicists in boutique agencies, and yet others are independent publicists who work with all of the above. I did that the other day and my in-box was flooded with article suggestions – and the possibility of a (somewhat unlikely for a freelancer) set visit in Romania.

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