How To Write Special Feature Articles - A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
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often assists him materially in placing his work to the best advantage.
The rate and the time of payment for contributions are also worth recording. When an article is equally well suited to two or more periodicals, a writer will naturally be inclined to send it first to the publication that pays the highest price and that pays on acceptance. A manuscript record also indicates where each one of a writer's articles is at a given moment, and by what publications it has been rejected. For such data he cannot afford to trust his memory. A writer may purchase a manuscript record book or may prepare his own book or card index. At the top of each page or card is placed the title of the article, followed by the number of words that it contains, the number of illustrations that accompany it, and the date on which it was completed. On the lines under the title are written in turn the names of the periodicals to which the manuscript is submitted, with (1) the dates on which it was submitted and returned or rejected; (2) the rate and the time of payment; and (3) any remarks that may prove helpful. A convenient form for such a page or card is shown on the next page: ___________________________________________________________________________ |Confessions of a Freshman. 2,750 Words. 4 Photos. Written, Jan. 18, 1919.| |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | |Sent |Returned|Accepted|Paid |Amount|Remarks | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |The Outlook |1/18/19 |1/30/19 | | | | | |The Independent |1/31/19 |2/10/19 | | | | | |The Kansas City Star|2/12/19 | |2/18/19 |3/12/19 |$9.50 |$4 a col.| | | | | | | | | |____________________|________|________|________|________|______|_________| |
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