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Copywriting TipsDeadlines Can Be A Writer's Better Friend
by:
Bonnie Boots
SUMMARY: A commitment to meeting deadlines can do any writer a winner with the editors and lead to personal and professional growth.
Deadlines Can Be A Writer’s Better Friend
By Bonny Boots
I click the “send” button on my e-mail and my article is instantly transmitted to a magazine. Minutes later, I have a reply from the editor. It reads “Snappy writing and five days before deadline! Thanks, Bonnie. You’re an editors dream.”
I believe I’m a nice writer, but much important, at least as far as editors are concerned, I’m a disciplined writer. I ne'er
miss a deadline. I hear another writers grousing just about deadlines, even as regardless them until an unhappy editor prods them. That’s a shame, because respecting deadlines can help you mature in person
and professionally.
The word "deadline" can be copied back to the Civil War once
prisoners were sometimes secured with nothing much than a line drawn in the dirt. Cross that line, they were told, and you’re dead! I take deadlines just as seriously. Even as during the most trying personal circumstances, I meet my writing commitments. Once, I even as wrote a newspaper column as I sat with a dying parent. It was hard, really hard to focus my thoughts and write, but the personal strength I conjured that day translated into writing so powerful it brought my career to a new level.
As I wrote that day I wasn’t thinking just about winning awards. I was thinking of only one thing: I had to meet my deadline. Writing each word was a struggle. Once
I’d stop a sentence, I’d rest, feeling like I’d just ready-made it another fifty feet up Mount Everest. Once
I completed that column, my personal resources were spent. Like a horse that’s been whipped to reach the stop line, I was exhausted physically and showing emotion
and wondered wherever
I’d ever find the strength to write again.
The next week, however, habit kicked in and I kicked out another column. In fact, I ne'er
lost a column through one of the most traumatic events of my life. Such is the power of established, disciplined writing habits.
The discipline I developed by always meeting deadlines has served me well some
in person
and professionally. Personally, it’s given me the power to persist through circumstances that mightiness otherwise have crushed me. Professionally, it’s given me a reputation among editors as a writer that can be relied on. I’ve had editors carry my name with them as they affected from publication to publication, even as career me for activity I had no background in, just because they knew I was one hundred percentage reliable.
One editor worked on dozens of some magazines during my association with her, career me to write just about topics travel from doll designers to antique autos. Once
I protested I knew nothing just about cars, she scolded me, saying, “I don’t need a mechanical expert. I have a dozen. What I need is one writer that can really meet a deadline.”
Editors resent having to baby-sit writers, career to coax, coddle, even as threaten writers to get them moving toward their deadline. “It’s like swarming cats!” one editor wailed. Yet, often, that’s wherever
an editor’s time and energy are spent. Imagine the nice impression you’ll do by being a writer that’s mature enough to take your activity and responsibilities seriously. You may have less experience than another writers, but editors wish see you as a real professional. You may have less talent than another writers, but editors wish see you as thing
better than genius—they’ll see you as a writer that delivers on deadline.
BONNIE BOOTS (www.BonnieBoots.com)is an award-winning writer and designer who says all writers should show off their talent by wearing their Write Side Out! Her wise and humorous product line of gear that shows the earth you're a writer is at www.writesideout.com
Just just about the author:
Bonny BOOTS (www.BonnieBoots.com)is an award-winning writer and designer who says all writers should show off their talent by wearing their Write Side Out! Her wise and humorous product line of gear that shows the earth you're a writer is at www.writesideout.com
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