Creative Writers – Submit Holiday Articles and Line Your Pockets W/Cash

Creative writers usually get into the spirit to write holiday articles when the holiday is upon them. Unfortunately, that is about four months too late to get it published. Your timing is right, but your organizational system is wrong.

Go ahead and write for the holidays as the spirit moves you, but keep those articles filed away under the name of the holiday and submit them to simultaneous magazines about five months before next year's holiday approaches.

And speaking of holidays, don't just write for some of the main holidays. Write for all of them. Here is a list for the 2009 calendar:

2009 Calendar

1. New Year's Day, January 1
2. Martin Luther King Day – January 19
3. Inauguration Day – January 20, every fourth year
4. Groundhog Day – February 2
5. Abraham Lincoln's Birthday – February 12
6. Valentine's Day – February 14
7. President's Day – February 16
8. George Washington's Birthday – February 22
9. Mardi Gras – February 24
10. Ask Wednesday – February 25
11. Daylight Savings Time starts – March 8
12. St. Patrick's Day – March 17
13. First Day of Spring – March 20
14. April Fool's Day – April 1
15. Good Friday – April 10
16. Easter Sunday – April 12
17. Earth Day – April 22
18. Arbor Day – April 24
19. Cinco De Mayo – May 5
20. Mother's Day – May 10
21. Armed Forces Day – May 16
22. Memorial Day – May 25
23. Flag Day – June 14
24. Father's Day – June 21
25. Summer begins – June 21
26. Independence Day – July 4
27. Parents' Day – July 26
28. Labor Day – September 7
29. Grandparents' Day – September 13
30. First day of Autumn – September 22
31. Columbus Day – October 12
32. United Nations Day – October 24
33. Halloween – October 31
34. Daylight Savings Time Ends – November 1
35. Veteran's Day – November 11
36. Thanksgiving – November 26
37. Black Friday – November 27
38. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
39. First day of winter – December 21
40. Christmas Eve – December 24
41. Christmas Day – December 25
42. New Year's Eve – December 31

There are many other secondary holidays, too. Do a little research, perhaps cut out a few clippings for some added flavor, and sit down to put it all together. Writing for the holidays is a little like planting tulips. You do the work now and you see the results later.

And don't forget that there are over 300,000 newspapers in the United States alone. You can find a complete list of them by searching "list of newspapers in the United States". You will find them sorted by state and also by circulation. As soon as a magazine buys your articles, sell the same ones again to newspapers. Yes, they will only pay $15 to $20 each, but if you sell one article to 20 newspapers, that is $400. If you submit four holiday articles to various newspapers at the same time, you could make nearly two thousand dollars for the price of a few stamps.

Other holidays include Martin Luther King, Jr., Patient Recognition Day, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Boy Scout Day, Random Acts of Kindness Day, National Pig Day, Texas Independence Day (Texas), Peace Corps Day, and many others. To find all the dates, consult the Earth Calendar.

Submit your material four months before the holiday, and address your letter to the editor. On the front, left hand, bottom corner of the envelope, write "holiday news articles".

It isn't hard to turn your holiday spirits into some ready-made cash, if you put a little thought into it. Start now by purchasing a portable file and labeling the tabs with holidays instead of alphabetical letters.

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