by Linda Gilden @LindaGilden
Driving down the road, a great idea for a magazine article pops into your head. You have a head full of points and an outline is forming. By the time you get home you should have a full article ready to flesh out for a magazine you are only sort of familiar with. You have read the magazine a time or two and know you could write for them. You enjoy the writing and the style of the magazine you want to pitch it to and have often thought while reading it, “I could probably have written that.”
Once you get home, you look on your reference shelf and realize you threw last year’s market guide away planning to purchase a new one, which you have neglected to do. Now what can you do?
