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How to Pitch Your Writing with Kristin Wong & Alex Webb

I sat down with two award-winning writers to talk about the ins and outs of pitching your ideas to editors and how to be a multipotentialite writer without getting "niched in."By Emilie Wapnick

Photo by Min An from Pexels.

Writers are everywhere in the multipotentialite community. It makes sense, when you think about it. Multipotentialites have a lot of ideas—and a lot of creativity with which to express them!

Our aspirations in writing vary, of course. Some multipods are (or wish to be) journalists or freelancers. Others write novels, short stories or poetry… Some do it for fun, others write as part of their work and some are both professional and casual writers—depending on the day and the project. There are so many forms and genres of writing, that it’s a natural field for many multipotentialites.

Whatever your writing goals are, I promise you will love today’s interview.

I recently sat down with award-winning writers and multipotentialites, Kristin Wong and Alex Webb, who have written for such publications as The New York Times and National Geographic. They are also the creators and co-instructors of the courses, Come Write with Us and Pitches That Work.

In this conversation, we talk about:

  • How to avoid getting “niched in” to a particular topic.
  • Why having multiple interests can make your writing richer.
  • How to pitch weird ideas to editors.
  • The two “personality types” that can have a hard time pitching.
  • How to stay inspired and make the creativity flow more easily.

I really enjoyed our conversation and I think you will, too:

Connect with Kristin at KristinWong.com and Alex at alxndrwbb.com. And here’s the article Alex pitched to the New York Times, that we discussed in the interview.

Don’t forget!

You can pick up Kristin and Alex’ fantastic course, Pitches That Work (which is normally sold for $99), along with 12 other hand-picked courses, ebooks and workshops for $97 during this year’s Multi-Passionate Must-Haves from September 8-11, 2021.

Mark your calendar for Sept 8 because we’re only doing this once and three days goes by fast. 🙂

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Emilie Wapnick (they/them) is the CEO and Founder of Puttylike, The Puttyverse and Wingtip Astrology, where they help multipotentialites build lives and careers around ALL their interests. Unable to settle on one path themself, Emilie studied music, art, film production and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University. They are the author of the award-winning book, How to Be Everything (HarperCollins), and their TED talk has been viewed 8 million times. You can learn more about Emilie here.

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  1. Stella says

    Hey Emily – would it be possible to provide transcriptions of your interviews in future? Because of my disabilities/general scatterbrained nature I find it hard to follow along without anything written, and I would love to be able to find out what awesome things people have said while you’re interviewing them! Thanks!

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    • Stella says

      Ah shoot! *Emilie

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    • Emilie Wapnick says

      Hi Stella, I so appreciate this comment. I’ll try to add captions/transcriptions in the future. It’s a good idea.

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