Developing an idea

Writing features can be both a lucrative and a rewarding area for staff journalists and for freelances. Magazines in particular, with their small staff teams, use a lot of freelances – but if you want to write for the likes of NME or Cosmopolitan, it can be a difficult area to break into. Nevertheless, the explosion in the magazine market over the past fifteen or twenty years means that whatever your interest, there’s at least one magazine catering for it.