A typical magazine assignment goes something like this:
- You send a query letter proposing an article you’d like to write for a publication.
- The publication accepts your proposal and gives you a contract for the assignment.
- You do the research, write the article and submit it.
- The publication pays you.
- You send another query letter to a different publication proposing a new article…
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