What is the e-course schedule?
Here it is: Week 1. Generating Ideas (assignment: come up with three salable ideas) Week 2. Finding Markets (assignment: choose one of your three ideas to run with for the rest of the course, and find five magazines to send your idea to) Week 3. Finding Editors (assignment: find out which editor to pitch at each magazine, plus their contact info) Week 4. Doing Interviews Part I (assignment: set up as many expert interviews as you need – generally 1 to 3) Week 5. Doing Interviews Part II (assignment: do the interviews) Week 6. Writing the Title and Lede (assignment: guess what? ;-> Write the title and lede of your query letter) Week 7. Writing the Body and Closing (assignment: write the body and “why I am so great” paragraph of your query) Week 8. Sending Your Query (assignment: get that thing out the door!