THE PUBLISHING PROJECT

You have been inclined to document your creativity, thoughts and ideas, that makes you a writer. I’m proposing a project for the new year. For those of you interested, let’s consider working to share some of your writing with a magazine editor. There are editors out there who are looking for new voices, new ideas, creativity and more.

Especially if you haven’t considered submitting something you’ve written, it’s important to become familiar with a magazine of interest. To start this project, I am suggesting we focus on the regional, online, senior-directed magazine, Northwest Primetime. You can subscribe to it for free and receive a link to monthly issues in an email. The site is www.northwestprimetime.com.

The first step in becoming familiar with a magazine is to spend some time examining it. Scroll through an issue and examine what types of articles appear. All magazines have something called Writer’s Guidelines that give interested writers information about what they are looking for, how they like pieces submitted, desired length of articles, if they do or do not pay, etc. The page that includes Writer’s Guidelines for Northwest Primetime is: https://northwestprimetime.com/editorial-info/

Let's consider creating a piece for this magazine.

I’ll continue to keep us focused on this project, offering more information and ideas. I encourage you to start out by:

·        Subscribing to Northwest Primetime

·        Examining the current issue, doing kind of an overview of the content and starting to think about a piece, poem, etc. you’ve written or might consider writing that would be appropriate

·        Reading through the Writer’s Guidelines

Reaching out to a magazine editor with something you have written can seem overwhelming, but it isn’t and I know there are pieces languishing in your files or ideas you have that aren’t on the printed page yet. Let’s get started.