: Re: How to get opinion freelance articles accepted? I have had a similar experience about six or seven times: I email an editor, and, after several dozen times of pitching articles to various of

Are you in the US?

A primary model here is "I might be interested in you as long as you might have something I can use. I'll give you attention as long as it costs me nothing."

In other words, if you are a high school junior in the states, every college wants you to apply, but many lose interest once your application is in. If you apply for a job in the real world, you will have people interested in you until they see your resume. If you go onto a dating site, people will be interested in you until they look at your profile. If you approach a paper or magazine of course they will be interested in you until they see your piece.

It is not that your college application or resume or profile or essay is bad, it is that before they get that set of files from you, there is no loss, no cost, no risk, to them saying "show me more."

Every single magazine, paper, etc will respond favorably if you simply say, "Hey I have something you might like!"

"Sure! Send it along." (No cost. They don't even have to read it.)

I suspect you need to submit closer to 200 to get something accepted. This seems to be the ballpark for almost any success (job, match, book).

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