“The Ever-Popular Personal Experience, Inspirational Article” Learn how to offer your readers hope, encouragement, and inspiration through your own personal experiences. Editors love the first person intimacy that develops between you and your reader when you honestly share your own experiences, and provide helpful practical and inspirational advice. The personal experience/inspirational is popular in both Christian and secular magazines.
“The Delightful Daily Devotion” A daily devotion is brief, fun to write, and hopeful to the reader. Many daily devotional, monthly magazines are entirely free-lance written! Editors need a steady supply of devotions. Many of these magazines go to people all over the world. Learn how to write devotions an editor will love.
“The Issue-Oriented Article” Offer your voice and your Christian worldview to people all over the world! People today need answers to the questions that come from current events, the world’s problems, crisis situations, etc. These articles you write about current society and world issues will help inform, educate, and stir your readers to action.
“The Perfect Profile/Interview Article” & “The Multiple Profiles Article” Both Christian and secular magazines use profile articles. In this work book, you’ll learn how to set up and conduct an interview, research your topic, format your article, and write the perfect profile piece. Everyone has a story! Discover how to detect and identify good profile article opportunities in the people you know, meet, and work with every day.
BONUS! I have also included some templates for you to copy and use, as well as some exercises you can do at home to hone your writing skills in these areas. You can do them by yourself, or together with some of your writer-friends. You’ll also find pages to jot down your thoughts and ideas as you read. Best wishes to you as you learn more about these fabulous four article formats!
Denise George is an internationally popular writer and speaker best known for creative Biblical application. Denise is married to Dr. Timothy George, executive editor of Christianity Today and founding Dean of Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama.