Writing Style

It's something that comes naturally, apparently. I seem to have to work hard for my writing to make any sense, or even stick to any kind of story line. I am happy about this though, as I know that everything I write has had hard work go into it.

However I seem to have a 'trend' in my writing. I write very deep and emotional stories, which is great, but not really appropriate for the womag market I want to target. It needs to be a bit slushier I guess.

I think I need to work on my ideas, I seem to have a very deep mind and thought process, making my stories over emotional, where-as I need light, fluffy love stories. Perhaps I shoud look at some other mazgazine from the past and take a few story lines, mix them together and come up with my own?

Always be on the look out

Yesterday I read a blog about 'Never throwing away old magazines'. To look through them and see if you could expand on a readers letter to make an article or whether you could write an readers letter in response to an article.

Today I wandered over to my mums house aimlessly (as we all do from time to time) and I noticed that she had an old 'Wag!' magazine (the one for Dogs Trust) lying in the conservatory. So thinking about the blog I read, I picked it up and started reading. After flicking through I noticed that there is a short paragraph about trying to rent a property whilst having pets.

Now as I have experience in this it struck me that this could be turned into either a bigger article or even a readers letter that would start off a healthy debate within a magazine.

If I had not read that blog yesterday I would not have even thought to pick up that magazine as I know they don't accept any readers letters or freelance work. It just goes to show that you always have to be on the look out for a fresh idea.