February 2019
Studied the Comprehensive Creative Writing Course
“I’ve gone from strength to strength, both my travel writing, and car reviews have been published in numerous high-end journals around the world, as well as in-flight magazines, luxury lifestyle publications, wealth management and trade journals… whatever takes my fancy really. The key is to publish in a diverse mix of magazine – for example, I’m a travel writer, but this doesn’t mean you’ll only see my articles in travel magazines. In fact, you’ll seldom see them there as they don’t pay near as well as genre specific magazines like a dental magazine. Remember, dentists too go on holiday - and drive luxury cars!
“However, world economics has made freelancing all the more difficult, especially in getting past the first hurdle, which is grabbing the editor’s attention. Therefore, formulating a good pitch is crucial, essential even. Being a luxury lifestyle magazine editor myself I’m often appalled at the shoddy pitches I receive from supposedly professionally trained journalists. Universities may well teach the fundamentals of journalism to their students, but they have little knowledge of how to write – and even fewer know what pitching is.
“Which is why I found training with The Writers Bureau to be crucial. I learnt core elements of the business not covered in journalism. I took it a step further and wrote a self-help book entitled ‘Secrets of a professional travel writer’ (available on Amazon) which gets down to the guts of how to compile a pitch and construct and article. The feedback I’ve received has been terrific.
“In between assignment I’m writing a novel about surviving child abuse, religious extremism, mental illness, political violence, murder… which I need to (1) finish (I’m 80% there!) (2) find a proofreader and (3) find an agent. Who knows, you may well find me on a bookstore next year!”
"I have seen my writing journey as an adventure: What can I write? What am I best at? What new aspects of writing can I discover and contribute towards? I have welcomed the wide range of modules covering different types of writing, challenging me to try new aspects in style and content, pushing me gently outside my comfort zone with encouragement. "I signed up for the course in December 2020 as a Christmas present to myself and I started the first module in January 2021. I have had eight pieces published: three paid earning £1080 and a star letter where I won a £250 hotel voucher." Annemarie Munro - Writers Bureau Student of the Year 2022 |
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