Far too often new writers jump into the boat a little too fast and suddenly find themselves flailing as the boat tips over on them. It is important for a new writer to really take the time to understand the process of getting published, especially by a magazine before they make any attempts at it. If you don't understand how it works, then you most likely won't get published without much more effort than you would have needed if you knew what you were doing.

The first thing that you need to know, that many writers don't realize is that you can't just send your writing to any magazine, just because it is in the same genre as your article. Some magazines don't accept submissions in general, some don't accept from first time writers, and some don't accept without an agent. This means that you need to first know which publications you can submit to and which ones you can't. This fortunately enough is a relatively easy process.

One of the first things that you are going to want to do is purchase a copy of Writers Market, which is an annual publication. This book will feature all of the publishers, organized by genre. They will list all of the details about them, including the payouts, what types of articles they accept, who they accept from, and what you have to do in order to submit to them. Make sure that you read this carefully, because if you don't, you could find that you are getting rejected every single time and you'll never truly know why, because often the rejection letters are quite vague, including numerous reasons why you potentially were rejected.

The next problem for new writers is that they don't take the time to spell check and edit their articles. When you submit your work, especially if you are a writer without any clout or any type of name in the business, it is extremely important to make a great impression. Your work should be so polished, with every detail checked a thousand times by a thousand people if possible. The idea is that you want it to look so perfect that the editors themselves wouldn't be able to write a better looking article.

I suggest that you make sure that you spell check, grammar check, and then find as many people as possible to read over your work and make sure it's perfect before you start submitting it for publication.

Another major mistake is that new writers tend to write about things that are too old for publication. As a new writer, you have to realize that you can't just write

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