So you want to become a celebrity blogger, break all the big news and entertain your audience with your own unique voice…
But you don’t know where to start.
Here are 5 helpful tips from our panel of writers that can help you get started writing about what you love…
Use the celebrity photo archive, sourcing photos is professional etiquette but photos can also cost a good bit to use. Use a celebrity photo archive to stay professional but free of many costs associated with using images that don’t belong to you.
Start your own blog before you go pro.
Starting your own blog will help you to get your feet wet and build an audience. From WordPress to other newer platforms, a blog s easy to create and an help prepare you for the future.
Compile a list of sites that accept freelance submissions.
The Writer’s Market Guide is an incredibly useful book for finding publications that might want to publish your work. It even tells you how to reach them and what kind of pieces they like to receive. However, bloggers are often looking to write for sites like Buzz Feed and other purely online rag mags that might not be featured. So do your own online homework. Search for a link that says “submission guidelines” for more information on their policies.
Read… A LOT.
Keep up with what is going on in the world around you. Get to know the business by seeing what stories are getting a lot of attention. What celebrities are hot right not? What audience are you trying to reach? Knowing who is making headlines right NOW in the audience you are hoping to reach will help you to better know who to focus a blog story on and what voice works best for you.
Know your standards.
If you don’t want to ever be called out for being a “bully” as some rag mag bloggers can be… set your standards early. Stay true to your brand. In today’s world exclusives are great BUT speaking on it with kindness will take you far. Many celebrity bloggers have even come forward in year’s past to make apologies for their hateful commentary.
As you begin your adventure to becoming a celebrity writer, remember, everyone starts somewhere. You’ll get a lot of rejection. That’s writing. But that just makes the “yeses” feel so much better.
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