LaRia
11-12-2006, 03:07 AM
Hi all,
I've been writing non-fiction for about a year now and although I had some initial success with magazine articles, I seem to have significantly slowed down in the past several months.
My dream is to be an environmental/nature writer of both mag. articles and someday a book. I have non-profit conservation experience. However I'm having an enormous problem coming up with article ideas and the whole slant thing. Another issue: these type of articles often require site visits, in-person interviews, etc. and yet... how do you get enough research done before the site visit to write the query?
What I would like to get out of this: focused advice on identifying slants for topics; how to craft a query before doing the full research (i.e. site visit). I've read all the books and all the how-to articles and many just don't seem to relate to these types of more in-depth social/environmental/political etc topics. Or perhaps I'm just overthinking it.
Thanks for any responses!!
I've been writing non-fiction for about a year now and although I had some initial success with magazine articles, I seem to have significantly slowed down in the past several months.
My dream is to be an environmental/nature writer of both mag. articles and someday a book. I have non-profit conservation experience. However I'm having an enormous problem coming up with article ideas and the whole slant thing. Another issue: these type of articles often require site visits, in-person interviews, etc. and yet... how do you get enough research done before the site visit to write the query?
What I would like to get out of this: focused advice on identifying slants for topics; how to craft a query before doing the full research (i.e. site visit). I've read all the books and all the how-to articles and many just don't seem to relate to these types of more in-depth social/environmental/political etc topics. Or perhaps I'm just overthinking it.
Thanks for any responses!!