As I sit here in the Dubai Airport, waiting for my connecting flight back to China, I'm reminded of one of the best ways a freelancer can spend an hour in the airport: leafing through magazines in the bookstore.
Half of freelancing is pitching, whether you like it or not. A decent part of pitching is figuring out whom to pitch to. This can be even more difficult if you're living abroad and have little access to English-language publications.
Thus, every chance I have to revisit the English-language world, in the form of airport bookstores, I take a notepad and go through the magazine section. I scope the magazines to find out what their scope is--is it travel? Academic? Business? I look for what sorts of columns they run--do they run short news-type briefs? In-depth investigations? And most importantly, I look for the editors' email addresses, making sure to jot down their names carefully.
It's a useful way for a freelancer to spend an hour, and it believe it or not, in our digital age, it can actually be faster to look this information up the old paper way.
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