Get Updates on New Writers’ Market and New Ideas for Projects

by tselvi, Nov 3, 2008

With the downtrend in economy, the freelance writers have to be busy in finding more avenues for their works and be more prolific to increase their writing income. Finding good-paying markets and brainstorming new ideas must be their constant activities. Here are some tips.

A freelancer can get good updates by subscribing for newsletters from writers' websites. And, buying a copy of Writer's Market is also helpful. However, we have to catch up with the constant changes in the publishing world. Google Alert is the unique search engine, tracking the entire web for the specific personalized topics and sends new results by daily email.

I registered with Google Alert, (http://www.googlealert.com). (This isn't affiliated with Google) and entered "writer's market" and "writer pay" I'm getting about 50 results regularly. Out of 50, about five are always promising. I entered the phrase "new breed of dog" as my personalized topic. I got 50 results. It helped me not only to do research on my current project on pets, but also to 'breed' many new article-ideas on this theme. And, I also get new sites and new pet magazines markets.

Google is also offering such service. Yet,writers are often annoyed when they get billions of results from the search engines like Yahoo, Google etc. Finding the appropriate market is a difficult task.

I found an easy system. Now, the amount of storage each Gmail user gets has surpassed 7 gigabytes. Get two or more Gmail accounts. With these email Id,subscribe for newsletters in various fields- parenting, family, gardening, business etc. You will get them daily or at regular intervals in you inbox. Websites such as Kidsource send e-mail messages 3 times per week on parenting, education & healthcare information. Major newspapers and magazines run newsletter service on many fields of Living. Most of them are free and some fee-based. Since Gmail's space is continuously increasing, you don't need to delete the messages. Reading all messages is time consuming. Do random survey of newsletters to get new article-ideas. Gmail lets you search your messages through the search box. So if you research on 'bullying among adults' type the words in 'search mail' and get many hooks on this theme. You can put the search results in a folder, called 'label'.

I caution you; for your professional correspondence, you must have a separate Gmail account. With hundreds of newsletters in your inbox, you may miss your editor's assignment.