Story-spotting for freelancers

I think a variety of freelance writers, novices and veterans alike, will enjoy an article by George Gurtner that we have coming up in our May issue (due out in early April). George is a veteran magazine columnist in New Orleans who has a real talent for spotting story ideas in general, and interesting people to write about in particular.

His article, built around some impressive examples from his writing life, is about developing what he calls the special “writer’s sense” of alertness to potential stories that can be plucked from “everything said and going on around you.”

At talks I give to beginning freelancers at writing conferences, I tell them they want to get that “red light” going off on in their brain, alerting them to potential story material. That red light, to use George’s words, is “the intuition that makes the freelancer tick.”

I think you’ll find his article interesting and motivating.

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