Feb 10, 2023
In the movie version of my writing life, there’s a scene where I walk up and down the aisle of an airplane watching strangers open the inflight magazine with the Bonnie Raitt cover story I wrote.
That really did happen: I wrote the story while a freelance newbie and then got to see people reading it IRL. Landing that assignment took persistence on my part. I tried numerous things to make it happen. When I try something spontaneously that turns out to be effective, I don’t always recognize that it can be repeated and applied intentionally.
In this bonus episode of the Writing Coach Podcast, I unpack the mindset and strategy that led to this assignment. For example, although I didn’t have experience covering entertainment (something you’d think would be useful for landing an interview with an A-list Grammy winner like Bonnie Raitt), I found something else about my experience that made my pitch even more compelling did write about social justice and the arts, and I included this as part of my pitch.
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