The Writers Bureau

Week 1: Readers’ Letters and Fillers Did you know you can earn around £200 pounds a month from readers’ letters? Whilst you can’t live off the proceeds of readers’ letters alone, you can earn between £25 - £50 a letter. It’s easy to get into the habit of writing a handful a week as they’re only very short (often less than 100 words). Write them well and you’ll find yourself with a high success rate and cheques coming in. Following on from readers’ letters, are fillers. Filler pieces are fun, easy to write, often only a few paragraphs in length and there are a lot of publications crying out for them. In this first session, we take a look at both, what they entail, who publishes them, how to write them, together with lots of advice and tips.

Week 2: Articles Once you’ve written a few readers’ letters and fillers, you should feel ready to move on to writing articles. And the good news is, newspapers and magazines are full of articles meaning there are lots of opportunities for you to get your articles published. The second session covers subjects you can write about, how to structure an article, with a beginning, middle and end, as well as how to set it out ready to send off. In some instances, you need to pitch your idea to an editor first rather than sending in the full article. All the ins and outs of writing a pitch are included in this session.

This workshop is run by Budding Writers in partnership with The Writers Bureau.