This will probably sound extraordinarily daft, but if you have a good well thought out idea for an article, and know what you want to say, and have found the 'place' where it might belong, how do you go about getting interest from the relevant publisher? Do you send them a brief outline, or can you send the finished article? I guess, thinking about it, it would be pretty daft to send the finished product, which will have entailed many days/weeks of research, only to be told they are not interested, or that they don't accept from freelancers!
Thus far I have contacted relevant publication to ask, first off, if they do take freelance. But if they say, 'yes, we do' where do I go from there? I don't want to look like a complete fool, because I know I can write this and am keen to do so.
Any comments, websites, books to read, ANYTHING, would be helpful. Plus if there are any freelancers out there I love to hear from you. I have small and limited experience of journalism, but the issues I want to raise are on a subject that I feel I know a great deal about (through my working life).
Many thanks.
JM

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