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Writing Fillers

A great way to keep the writing juices flowing and the money coming in is to write fillers. Fillers are little pieces of writing ranging anywhere from a practical tip to a short poem. Fillers do what their name indicates: they "fill" those leftover spaces that result when articles are laid out on the page.

There are three specific advantages to writing fillers:

1) They are always in demand;

2) They take little time to write;

3) They provide decent pay.

Another advantage to writing fillers is that it's fairly easy to break into that market since editors always have those little, left-over spaces to fill.

So where should you start? A good place is Sally Stuart's Christian Writers' Market Guide. The Guide has a whole section just on markets for fillers. Another good place to start is your favorite magazine. Read through it looking for fillers. See what topics are covered in fillers. Then take a shot writing one yourself.

Fillers provide the perfect venue for those who don't have large blocks of time to write. If that's you, then use those five-minute snippets of time you do have and "fill" them by writing fillers.

And that's my "musing that matters" for today. What's yours? :)

Blessings,

MaryAnn

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