Blog Coaching - Back on Track

Martin, the blog's very own budding diving photojournalist has taken the advice from the last post, this is where he is up to now.

"Well life has gotten in the way of my writing aspirations. But this week its back to the keyboard. I have identified one magazine for a modified trip report. Researched the back issues for one year and could not find any on this area. For this article I have plenty of photos and word count, about 1200, seems to by typical for this publication.

The second article requires a little more research but I am getting numbers from some of the major certification and housing manufacturers. Hunting around in my very unorganized photo files for supporting shots."

As far as the first idea Martin has, he's now back on track to getting published. On the previous post I was concerned he was going to write the article and then try and find a home for it. But now he's taken a step back - he's now found the magazine he wants to get published in and also has an idea of word count and pictures required. Another first step - he's checked whether this angle has been published recently and as it hasn't he is creating a gap that needs to be filled.

Next step - we need to know what magazine this is and from there we can look at the contributor guidelines and if there are no CG, then there is still a lot we can do to identify exactly what the magazine is looking for.

Keep writing...

Brendan