I'm full of it
"It" meaning "ideas" instead of "liquor" for a change.
I'm trying to scrounge up some story assignments, as I need a lot more work to pay the bills here at Camper HQ. (If you happen to be an editor paying a decent per-word rate, call me, k?)
I've had a rash of story ideas based on recent travels and press releases and upcoming events and breaking news. As a writer I'm always trying to identify a theme or trend or extract useful information from my experiences, then pitch them to magazines and newspapers. In the past two days I've sent out 13 story pitches to editors and heard back on 3 of them. (They answer the no's fairly quickly). It should be noted that simultaneous pitches are not allowed, so these are 13 distinct story ideas in addition to the probably ten other pitches I'm still waiting to hear back on from the past several months. That's not an excessive amount of pitches to have out, since nobody is paying me very well, but it is a lot to keep track of.
In any case, the point it this: I've been doing a lot of really good thinking over the past week about booze but I can't share any of it until I hear back that my pitches were not accepted and I know I can't get paid for it. What you're getting here on this blog is the writing that I can't sell, along with a lot of information I post as I learn it. Perhaps one day I'll be the world's first independent online cocktail journalist (if you're a high-paying sponsor, call me, k?), but for now I have to hold out a little bit. It's hard, because I like to talk a lot.
I'm trying to scrounge up some story assignments, as I need a lot more work to pay the bills here at Camper HQ. (If you happen to be an editor paying a decent per-word rate, call me, k?)
I've had a rash of story ideas based on recent travels and press releases and upcoming events and breaking news. As a writer I'm always trying to identify a theme or trend or extract useful information from my experiences, then pitch them to magazines and newspapers. In the past two days I've sent out 13 story pitches to editors and heard back on 3 of them. (They answer the no's fairly quickly). It should be noted that simultaneous pitches are not allowed, so these are 13 distinct story ideas in addition to the probably ten other pitches I'm still waiting to hear back on from the past several months. That's not an excessive amount of pitches to have out, since nobody is paying me very well, but it is a lot to keep track of.
In any case, the point it this: I've been doing a lot of really good thinking over the past week about booze but I can't share any of it until I hear back that my pitches were not accepted and I know I can't get paid for it. What you're getting here on this blog is the writing that I can't sell, along with a lot of information I post as I learn it. Perhaps one day I'll be the world's first independent online cocktail journalist (if you're a high-paying sponsor, call me, k?), but for now I have to hold out a little bit. It's hard, because I like to talk a lot.
Labels: camper_clips
1 Comments:
Tease!
Post a Comment
<< Home