Writers always need a good supply of fresh ideas to keep going. If your stock has dried up or if you’re looking for a new hunting ground, turn to your calendar for inspiration.
Where there’s an anniversary, there’s a potential article. Keeping that in mind, look out for holidays (regular ones and the unique), festivals (the more offbeat, the better), anniversaries of historical events and birth and death anniversaries of famous or interesting people.
You get the gist. The important question, then, is : Is there any comprehensive listing of dates?
If you don’t want to spend precious writing time trawling the Internet, here are some places to have a quick look:
- Special days and weeks in Britain
- Count Me In - a special listing of charity events, challenges and celebrations
- On this day in history
- Book of days
- BBC - On this day
- Bizarre holidays
- History channel - this day / week in history
- Famous birthdays
What can you do with this list? Well, for one, start building your own database of monthly occurrences. Then write ahead, working to pitch an idea to an editor well before the rest of the bandwagon does. Remember, the more popular the occurrence, the greater the number of pitches an editor is likely to get. Working on anniversaries alone will keep you writing a lot, so it’s worth taking a serious look at these.
More articles on the subject:
Submit to Social Networks (digg, stumble upon, del.icio.us, ...)
Related on this blog:
Found it interesting? Don't forget to bookmark the feed from the site.
0 responses so far ↓
There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.
Leave a Comment