Spoilsport!

Seriously, the editor must have been intrigued by something in your pitch (awareness of house style, snappy prose, original angle, free doughnuts …) to be tempted to click on your blog.

Maybe it won’t work for everyone, maybe it will, but it certainly worked for you.

With so many of your 1500 followers on twitter clicking though to your blog, I bet this is not the last commission you get that is prompted by a lively and interesting blog.

I guess it’s an advantage of your blog being so integrated, if the editor saw your portfolio the blog was only a click away.

Mine is the same, but I’ve yet to have my blog very far ahead of my own solicited work, mostly using it for side notes on stories I’m already covering. Also now blogging on sending myself willingly up a creek and into journalism.

And few editors will have time to read a blog just because you include its URL in some email or pitch.

It is undeniable that commissioned might ensue from a chance reading of a blog, but think of the time taken putting the blog together.

I know I waste too much of my time blogging and am begining to wish the 60-70 thousand words I’ve written in a few months had been better spent writing that novel I’m avoiding or even just selling a few more pitches.

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