How To Write For Regional Parenting Magazines Using Personal Experience

My articles often appear in Our Kids Magazine. January 2014 cover shown here.

One of the reasons I love writing for regional parenting publications, is that I get to put my personal experience to good use.

I also love working with other mom writers who have ideas for their own articles, and who wish to learn the professional skills required to write for regional magazines.

Writing for regional magazines always was and still is a great way to get started as a freelance writer, if you are willing to use your imagination, carve out time to write, set boundaries with the family, and submit your polished work.

I have been showing stay-at-home and working moms the writing ropes for thirteen years now. That’s a heck of a long time but I still love it. And I still love writing and submitting regional parenting magazine articles myself. Just follow this blog or follow me on social media and you will see my consistent results.

Best of all, writing for regional parenting publications provides steady income flow for me and my long-time students, so we can pursue other types of projects, too, and still reap the benefits that come from writing regularly for regional parenting publications.

If you are ready to get started, here are a few simple tips:

1. Familiarize yourself with a handful of regional parenting magazines

2. Brainstorm some topics from your life you might write about

3. Organize your topics by time of year, start with seasonally and then eventually sort them by month of the year

4. Draft your ideas in a format you think will serve regional publication editors (not too long or too short)

5. Walk away from your draft for a bit to let it cool off

6. When you come back, make it better with the addition of quotes, facts, stats, examples, or anecdotes

7. Keep polishing the piece again each time you sit back down

8. Have someone else proofread the piece to make sure you have not overlooked anything you can no longer recognize

9. Submit the article to the regional parenting magazine of your choice

10. Repeat, repeat, repeat until you have a body of work you can submit and resubmit each season and month

Here are a few articles I have written based on personal experience:

Streamline The Back-To-School Paper Flood

A Puppy As A Present? Ten Ways To Survive The First Ten Days

Ho-Ho-Hanukkah! How To Balance Hanukkah And Christmas Celebrations

If you would like to learn more, please check out my resources and offerings below.

I am the author of Write For Regional Parenting Publications For Fun & Profit.

I also teach the online video course, The Art Of Short Article Writing For Nonfiction Writers.

I offer ongoing and inexpensive accountability coaching for writers who are finding their writing and submitting grooves.

I am also the author of the classic, dog-eared reference for mom writers, Writer Mama, How To Raise A Writing Career Alongside Your Kids.

You might also like to read my post 10 Reasons To Write For Regional Parenting Magazines.

I hope we will have a chance to work together soon. In the meantime, I wish you the best of luck in your professional writing pursuits!