How Do You Start An Advice Column?
If you’re the first one to offer your advice and opinions to others, you could start writing your own advice column just like Abigail Van Buren or Ann Landers. Writing an advice column could be a fun career choice, but it also comes with responsibility. Step 1 Brush up on your grammar skills and edit and re-edit your work. A knowledge of Associated Press Style is also a plus since most newspapers use it. Step 2 Develop your expertise and decide if you want an advice column to be specifically geared toward etiquette, relationships, parenting or some other subject. Step 3 Ask your family and friends to propose questions for you to use to build samples to submit to editors. Take their questions and write careful, well-researched and concise answers. Step 4 Compose six to ten sample columns 700 to 1,000 words long. Step 5 Write a biography explaining why you are an expert in your advice-giving field. Perhaps you’re a doctor, mother or expert in your field. Step 6 In your press kit, combine
