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Pitching in Times of Uncertainty

I’ll admit it. I struggled to write this column more than anything I’ve ever written in my 20 years with the Writer’s Digest writing community. All year, I had planned to cover travel magazines for our big travel issue, but those plans changed.

As I write this piece, a majority of people in the U.S. are still self-quarantining themselves and their families from COVID-19. While many industries have been rocked by recent events, there are

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