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Topic: Pitch Blog Post As Essay?
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| homeworkdc | Posted – 8/9/2007 6:42:18 PM | show profile I wrote an essay this summer for a group-blog (no pay and no restrictions from them). Could I pitch this as a magazine essay? I think it would work well for two national mags. But is this considered re-selling? Has anyone done this? |
| JerzyGirl | Posted – 8/10/2007 10:38:55 AM | show profile Some will consider it as having been published, some not. It usually depends on the size of the blog's readership, geographic considerations (if its mainly a locally read blog), and other considerations. In any case, I suspect you may need to do considerable revisions to make a blog post into the kind of sturdy essay wanted by a national mag. If that's the case, you may be changing in enough to make it another essay on the same topic, instead of the exact same piece as your blog post. I usually find that when I have something (from my blog or a niche newsletter) that I think will fly as an essay for a wider, more demainding national audience, when I actually sit down to look at it again, I can see where it reads like a blog post, not a well-crafted for-print essay; then I rewrite, get a stronger piece and sometimes, yes, do end up selling it to a better print pub. But by then it's a new piece via revisions and rewriting. Good luck. |
| homeworkdc | Posted – 8/10/2007 2:40:46 PM | show profile Thanks Thanks for sharing. I wrote this post like an essay, but yes, I need to sit down and re-work it a bit. . . that never hurts. |
| candylilacs | Posted – 8/10/2007 3:41:28 PM | show profile She said what I was thinking. I did the same thing. I had an essay on my blog, but I changed it a bit, added about 100 words and sold it. Usually blogs are written in about one draft, published material needs to be gone over with a finer-toothed comb. ------ http://www.mswritesguide.blogspot.com |
