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Chapter 1: So You Want to Be a Freelance
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Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Making Time to Write
Chapter 4: Setting Goals
Chapter 5: Coping With Rejection
Chapter 6: Finding Ideas
Chapter 7: Categories, Subjects, Topics, and Slants
Chapter 8: The Outline Demystified
Chapter 9: Conducting Research on the Web
Chapter 10: Conducting Interviews
Chapter 11: Starting Your First Draft
Chapter 12: Personal-Experience Articles
Chapter 13: Exploring the Markets
Chapter 14: Writing for Special-Interest Publications
Chapter 15: Writing for Newspapers
Chapter 16: The Submission Process
Chapter 17: How to Write a Successful Query
Chapter 18: E-mail Queries
Chapter 19: Formatting Your Manuscript
Chapter 20: Do You Need a Cover Letter?
Chapter 21: Understanding Rights and Copyright
Chapter 22: Understanding Contracts
Chapter 23: Setting Fees and Getting Paid
Chapter 24: Handling Income and Expenses
Chapter 25: Keeping Records
Chapter 26: Selling Reprints
Chapter 27: Selling Photos
Chapter 28: Selling (and Syndicating) a Column
Chapter 29: Writing (and Selling) a Nonfiction Book
Chapter 30: Writing for Business
Chapter 31: Becoming a Full-Time Freelancer
Appendix: Online Resources
Contributors
Index
Starting
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by Moira Anderson Allen, Published by Allworth Press
257 pp
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