Julie Clark Robinson is a writer and ✍️ Make Writing Your Job community member whose personal essays have been published in Family Circle magazine — where she was paid $1,500 (and $2,000!) per piece. She's here today to talk about how she built a writing career around personal storytelling, and how writers can actually get paid to write from their own lives.
In this Substack Live, we talk about…
How Julie leveraged personal essays to get her work published in anthologies and in a book of her own
How no sample is too outdated when it comes to personal essays — good writing always belongs in your portfolio
Best practices when pitching personal essays to editors using the ✍️ Make Writing Your Job weekly pitch lists (which come out 2x per week)
Why great writing comes from the heart, and how no one’s is too “small” to write about
Be sure to follow Julie here on Substack and on LinkedIn!
Thank you Amy Gabrielle, Nancy Muldoon, Jenny Vanderberg Shannon, Elizabeth Norvell, Jeff LaPointe, and many others for tuning into my live video with Julie Clark Robinson!
