Finding Topics That Make Your Articles Indispensable

It's harder and harder to place articles in magazines, newspapers, and other publications. The recession is up, the amount of advertising is down, and there are fewer articles being bought by fewer magazines and newspapers.

So to see print you need to make the very topics you suggest or write indispensable to the editors when queried or submitted. The ideas have to so commend themselves that they move to the top of the buy list.

There's a way (or a dozen ways) to do that. Gordon Burgett has h...