Special Occasions: - Birthday - Anniversary - Belated Birthday - Graduation - Get Well - First Communion - New Baby - Confirmation - Congratulations - Bar Mitzvah - New Job - Engagement - Vacation/Trip - Retirement - Sympathy - Thank You General: - Friendship - Good-Bye - Missing YOU - Haven’t Heard From You - Thinking of You - Sorry I Haven’t Written Don’t forget that many of these categories have sub- categories with variations like "mother", "father", "niece", "nephew", "son-in-law", and so forth. Cards can also be from "the two of us", "your brother" and other people. There are even card for single parents. There are different types of card styles, too, like "pop- ups", children’s cards and bawdy humor for adults only. Don’t limit yourself. Experiment with all types of writing styles and themes. You’ll eventually establish a comfort level and a knack for a par-ticular category. Bumper stickers, radio comedy bits and greeting cards. Think short and you may well be on your way to a successful freelance writing career. FROM FAMILY LIFE TO CHILDREN’S STORIES Earlier in this text, we suggested that your conversations with your children or younger relatives might make good short anecdotal tales for submission to outlets such as "Reader’s Digest". There are many more children’s magazines that are possibilities for this type of writing. Children’s stories are not only the humorous recollection, but can be both fictional and non-fiction articles that may be easy to write because they are, again, for your PER- SONAL EXPERIENCE! If you are a teacher, you probably have an endless source of material to put down on paper. You can write about children or you can write to children for them to read. It all depends on your subject matter and your angle. If, for example, you’ve come with a good method of getting your child to clean his or her room, this might make a good short article for a magazine like "Growing Parent" or "Christian Parenting Today". You may have a story about your child’s first date, which you can turn into an article about teens and dating that kids themselves might like to read in a magazine like "Seventeen" or "Teen". Parents, too, might enjoy it, so you can try submitting it to both types of publications. If you’re writing towards a teen audience, you’ll have to keep the story on a written level that your young readers can comprehend. There are easy ways to do this, by using no more than three syllable words and writing in short, sharp sentences and brief paragraphs. Simply reviewing spelling books for various age levels will help you develop a vocabulary list that will be useful when directing your piece at a specific audience/age-group level. Writing for children should be done in a style that empathizes with them, as if it were written by someone their age. Don’t write like a parent! If you’re trying to get a message across, do it in a way another child might tell it.
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