article techniques that sell

by Louise Boggess

This easy-to-follow method shows you the essential techniques you need to develop an idea into the nine basic articles that all magazines buy.

If you follow this professional approach to writing developed by a nationally known teacher and successful article writer, you can make quick and steady progress.

260 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1978

Reviews

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

I studied this book in a course I took by correspondence back in the day. I was too distracted and lazy to do the course properly and dropped it; but this book did not motivate me. Not blaming Bogess, of course, but I've found over the years that how-to books on writing are the Death Valley for people like me. Maybe it's because I'm not a good student, which is true if in a formal setting, or I don't jibe with the types of people, even successful ones, who feel the need or desire to write a few books that sell and turn around and feel that they are gifted enough to tell you how to write successful articles like they have just done. That doesn't work for art or music really, so why would it for writing articles and whatnot? I forgot the famous writer that put it this way, maybe Hemingway, "just sit your ass down in a chair and write", or something to that effect. He was probably tired of hearing would-be writers belly-ache about writer's block and all that, and he was probably drunk when he said it, if he did. But he said a lot of truth in that condition, and any real writer knows that what he reputedly said is true. They just don't waste their energy telling us about it.

So, even though Bogess' book is well organized and properly written, scan it and put it away.