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Finding Time and Pitching Essays

Two good questions over at Ask Allison:

How do you balance working on your novel with freelancing? I’m having trouble carving out time for fiction writing–it seems that paying work always gets the priority, and I can’t figure out how to change that.

and

My question is, what is the best way to pitch a personal essay? I was told one sentence was enough to introduce the essay (something catchy, of course) and then just include the essay in the email. Would that suffice, or should there be more of a real pitch, something more comprehensive to introduce (and sell) the personal essay?

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