From Zilch to Freelance

So you want to launch a writing career but you don't know where to begin?

Join the club. Twenty years ago I was in the same boat, but today I am a successful travel, food and lifestyle writer/ photographer

What will this course do for me?

I can’t promise miracles, but I can guarantee that whatever you want to write about – whether it’s martial arts, beekeeping or travel - this course will give you the starting blocks to build your writing skills, find a relevant outlet and see your work in print.

Who is it for?

Whether you’re a hobby writer who’d like to pen articles about your personal passion  and see those articles published, or a keen writer who wants to earn money from doing what they love, this course will give you a major boost in the right direction

What will I learn?

This course will teach you:

• To find out what sells, then find out what you can write about
• Getting started - organising your office, finding useful contacts etc
• How to write a pitch (research skills, finding an angle etc)
• How to contact editors - giving them what they want
• Useful resources to help you climb that learning curve
• Finding markets/more info/useful resources
• Provide photos with your articles - make more money

So what do I do now?

Go to the bookings page to sign up, then meet me on June the 17^th 2012 for a fun, fascinating and information-packed zilch-to-freelance writers week. 

Biography

With a drama degree from Goldsmiths college, Heidi Fuller-love taught improvisation and ran South Side Live, an alternative comedy club in south London – where comics from Mike Myers to Jo Brand cut their teeth – before moving to France twenty years ago to pursue a - highly successful – food and travel writing career. 

Still based abroad, she travels for six months of the year. She regularly contributes articles and photographs in 70-plus publications worldwide, ranging from The Guardian, Songlines and The LA Times to Hobby Farms, Asian Geographic Passport and The South China Morning Post.

Her website is: www.heidifuller-love.com