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Tips for contributing to magazines:
1, carefully study the style of newspapers and magazines.
As a professional writer, if you want to improve the hit rate of your manuscript, you must first carefully study the style of newspapers and periodicals, and then you can contribute to newspapers and periodicals in a targeted manner, and the hit rate of manuscripts will be greatly improved. Starting from one's own specialty and being good at all kinds of prose, one should write more and practice more prose as a breakthrough in his contribution writing career.
2. Read the invitation letter of the editor carefully.
Read its submission instructions clearly, and understand the type, characteristics and deadline of the manuscript required for impurities. Because the editor's letter of invitation for manuscripts is all about the requirements of the column, it is very general, and it is impossible to know the true style of the column only by summarizing the requirements of the column in a few words. You must carefully read the edited manuscript against the contract letter and study the two in comparison, so as to truly grasp the style of the column.
3. When submitting a manuscript, be modest and targeted.
Many authors always like postscript when they contribute. The author's postscript can be said to be varied. Appropriate self-introduction is ok, but it should be concise, modest and polite. The editor will know the quality of the manuscript after reading it. There is no need for the author to gild the lily, which is often counterproductive. Therefore, when submitting a manuscript, the author must be modest and not over-promote himself.
4. Properly handle the relationship between multi-contribution and editing.
Generally speaking, it is a principle to contribute more than one manuscript. These principles are: municipal newspapers are basically liberalized, provincial newspapers (including provincial capitals) are semi-liberalized, large-scale cultural periodicals with high manuscript fees are all closed, and large-scale cultural periodicals, story periodicals and literary periodicals with low manuscript fees are semi-closed. Several concepts must be clarified here: first, basic liberalization, second, semi-liberalization, third, complete closure and fourth, semi-closure. Basically liberalized, that is to say, there is basically no restriction on multiple contributions for one manuscript.
5. The method of submission should be scientific.
Don't bother the editor. Write your contact information clearly when submitting a manuscript, and don't let the editor find someone. Moreover, editors usually reply automatically, and the author will soon know whether the editor has received the manuscript. We should respect editors. Editors, like authors, work hard and have to work overtime. Sometimes they work late, and some editors can't even rest on holidays, so it's not easy to make money.
6, establish a personal image
The image of submission is to establish oneself in the editor's mind. The first time you contribute to a newspaper, you must give good, excellent and repeated manuscripts. Because the first draft for newspapers and magazines is a "stepping stone", if the brick is not hard enough, it will break as soon as it hits the door, and the door may never open by itself. Grasp the style of newspapers and magazines and contribute carefully. After the manuscript is published, don't rush to ask for the manuscript fee.