Wednesday, February 15, 2006

The Query Letter



Currently, I've been interested in expanding my horizon by studying freelance writing at UCLA. By next Tuesday, I have to have a query letter completed. It may sound like simple process. Send a letter to an editor and get them excited about what your article will be about. Yet, that's the problem. I'm sending a query letter out on an article that hasn't been written. I've been googling for resources for my article on the Desert for the last two days. I think that I've finally located all the items that I need but now I have to make a witty and sensible banter on a subject matter that I need more time with. The best professors that I've had were the ones that could take the subject matter at hand and simplify its content into a lecture worth listening to. I think that I will step away from my resources for the day, turn up some Chris Brown, and maybe even watch a movie. Stepping away from the material at hand contributes to a fresh perspective. I hope that my shower tomorrow morning is not only something that will wake me up but something that will bring me a sort of "a-ha moment."

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