Writing Features : For magazines and websites

By Dawn Kennedy

Do you want a successful writing career?While there is no exact formula for writing features, an experienced mentor can save you time and help make your efforts successful.Writing Features: For magazines and websites is an inspiring guide that will teach you all that you need to know to write professional articles for newspapers, magazines and websites. Being a successful magazine and website writer requires more than just an ability to write. To get your work published, you need to know how magazines and websites work.You need to know about the different types of features and how to write them. Writing Features: For magazines and websites will teach you the difference between interview features; profiles; human interest stories; first person accounts; reviews, travel and trend features.Writing Features: For magazines and websites includes inspiring formulas that will enable you to come up with fresh ideas for features and match them with the right publication. First impressions count and Writing Features: For magazines and websites ensures that you will earn editor's respect by writing a professional query letter and submitting clean copy. Writing Features: For magazines and websites teaches you the essential journalism skills that you need to work as a feature writer. You will learn how to research, report and conduct an interview like a professional.Writing Features: For magazines and websites includes an effective step-by-step writing process that will enable you to avoid writer's block and submit winning features that include a gripping lede, a precise nut graf and a resounding ending. As a veteran feature writer, with nearly 30 years writing experience, Dawn Kennedy knows the joys and challenges of writing for a living. She has worked as a features editor for O magazine, editor of Sync'Up and co-editor of 021 magazine. She knows what magazines want and editors need.Follow her advice and you will be an editor's best friend. Currently Dawn is the senior lecturer in journalism at City Varsity, Cape Town, South Africa.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549638327
• ISBN13: 9781549638329
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"