HANDBOOK OF MAGAZINE ARTICLE WRITING is a book put out by Writers Digest and introduced by Bob Greene.

Questions and answers with Bob Greene:
He discusses his columns and books about getting started writing and keeping up with the fast-pace off writing.

Do you have what it takes to be a writer?
Art Spikel is an editor that discusses the characteristics of writing. He includes talents that a writer must have.

The ideal idea:
Michael Bugeja talks about how to find strong ideas from common, unexpected, everyday sources.

Researching for magazine and reference books:
Lois Horowitz tells you how to save time and how to research or story.

Matter of expertise:
Jay Stuller tells you how to become an expert writer on subjects that you do not know about.

Confusion of Clippers:
Stan Bicknell tells us the technique for clipping and filing printed articles for ideas, background material and ready-made research for your own work.

Small town stories in the sales:
Dennis E. Hensley explains how to use the common and most obvious stories and sell them over and over again.

How to write irresistible query letters:
Lisa Collier Cool tells us how to create query letters that will sale your articles.

The secret of superlative salesmanship:
James Morgan tells us how sale ourselves and our ideas to the editor.

There is so much in this book that I’m not going to break the rest of it down in sections. First-place all the sections or written by authors that have proven themselves. This is the key point we are getting views from different writers.

Some of the other stuff that is covered in this book:
How to land interviews with busy and famous people? What to ask on that interview? How to construct a good strong article? How to revise to make your writing stronger and clearer?

There are many sections on how to write different types of articles. Some of those examples are food in recipe articles, women’s magazines, as told to, true life drama, personal experience, how to articles, travel stories, and list articles.

There is a section on articles with pictures. It has the essentials of an article, selling the article over and over, and how to submit your to article.

Personal opinion this book is worth every penny. This will be a book to what you will use over and over again. I have been writing off and on for ten years. I always go back to this book to review and reread. Some of my books can be tossed into in the trash and good riddance but not this book. It is one of the best all-around nonfiction writing book you can buy.


Recommended: Yes